{"id":400,"date":"2022-05-26T09:24:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T09:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/free-map.org\/maps\/?p=400"},"modified":"2022-05-26T09:24:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T09:24:26","slug":"ukraine-food-export-before-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/blog\/ukraine-food-export-before-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine food export before war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New data for the first five months of 2019 indicate that China, India, Egypt and Turkey are the leading directions of Ukrainian food exports.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the war, 90% of Ukraine&#8217;s exports left via deep ports in the Black Sea, which can load tankers large enough to travel long distances &#8211; to China or India &#8211; and still make a profit. But all are now closed. Russia has seized most of Ukraine&#8217;s coastline and blockaded the rest with a fleet of at least 20 vessels, including four submarines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main route out of the country now is rail. But Ukraine&#8217;s rail system is wider than the EU&#8217;s, which means loads have to be transferred to new wagons at the border. The average waiting time is 16 days but it can take up to 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though the global conversation around food shortages is largely about wheat, most of the grain leaving Ukraine at the moment is corn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data for the first five months of 2019 indicate that China, India, Egypt and Turkey are the leading directions of Ukrainian food exports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russo-ukrainian-war","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}