Ukrainian Media Highlights Trans-Oil’s Contribution to Ukraine’s Grain Export Resilience
Ukrainian Media Highlights Trans-Oil’s Contribution to Ukraine’s Grain Export Resilience
04.08.2026
Recent coverage by TSN, Gordon, OBOZ.UA, Glavcom and Ukrainian News has highlighted Trans-Oil’s long-term role in supporting Ukraine’s agricultural export resilience. Since entering the Ukrainian port of Reni in 2014, the Group has remained invested in the country, kept its terminals operating through Russia’s aggression, and helped maintain essential routes for Ukrainian grain during every year of the full-scale war.
Trans-Oil’s two Reni terminals provide approximately 73,000 tonnes of storage and around 800,000 tonnes of annual throughput capacity. At a time when Ukraine’s traditional Black Sea export routes faced severe disruption, that capacity became part of a vital alternative corridor and the terminals handled:
- 800,000 tonnes in FY2022/23
- 810,000 tonnes in FY2023/24
Operations continued despite persistent security threats to the Danube region. The terminals were supported by a regional logistics system built over two decades – including storage, rail, Danube transportation, and fleet capacity – which helped redirect Ukrainian agricultural flows and preserve market access when conventional routes were restricted.
When Russia closed Ukraine’s principal seaports, more than 10 million tonnes of grain – approximately 21% of the country’s grain exports – moved through the Danube ports in the 2022/23 season.
For farmers, these routes meant more than additional capacity, they enabled producers to sell crops, receive working capital, pay employees and suppliers, release storage, and finance the next harvest.
“Our role is practical: to keep grain moving, help export proceeds return to Ukrainian producers and preserve confidence in the next harvest. Ukrainian farmers need dependable access to markets – and the world continues to need Ukrainian food,” said Vaja Jhashi, CEO and controlling shareholder of Trans-Oil.
Every functioning shipment supports a wider economic chain inside Ukraine, everything from farmer revenues and rural employment to rail and road transport, port activity, and foreign-currency export receipts.
Before the war, Ukraine’s food exports supplied the equivalent of the annual food needs of approximately 400 million people, according to the World Food Programme.
The resilience of the Danube corridor was a collective Ukrainian achievement, supported by farmers, port employees, transport operators, authorities, and private businesses.
“Trans-Oil’s contribution to Ukraine is specific and measurable,” added Jhashi. “We entered Ukraine well before the full-scale war, stayed committed as operating conditions became substantially more dangerous and we have kept significant export infrastructure working close to its physical limits.
“The practical value Trans-Oil has brought to Ukraine has helped crops leave the country and proceeds return to Ukrainian producers, supporting the wider economic chain that depends on agricultural exports. It is a record grounded in continuity, investment, and operational delivery at a time when those qualities mattered most – and we are very proud of the support we have provided.”
