Miller Magazine Issue: 127 July 2020

66 INTERVIEW MILLER / JULY 2020 is the railway. We have just one state railway company, which has some problems with the locomotives. So the grain export is increasing, and we need more railway ca- pacity, but the railway company cannot satisfy our needs. We hope that in the nearest future, we will have some competition in the railway market. We have a draft of the law, which will make an opportunity to transport the cargo by the private railway company. It will solve the problem of the locomotives' deficit. In addition, river transportation can solve the logis- tic problem partly. We have a big river – Dnipro, which length almost through all country – from the north to the south. Now, we have transported more than five MMT by the river and can increase its volume to the 30 MMT. Nevertheless, we need some more infrastructure capaci- ty. This is the nearest future, and we see how some com- panies actively build the river terminals and buy barges. What are the other major challenges for Ukrainian grain exporters today? Of course, Ukrainian exporters have some internal problems. Mainly it is our legislation, which has a period of adaptation to the EU legislation. But we understand that it should become, and we cannot have another way. Of course, we have strong competition in the international market and some non-tariff barriers with some countries. But UGA makes everything possible to solve it, and we have some success. For example, we have reopened the Viet- namese market for Ukrainian grain. It is a very important market for our corn. We have some fumigation misunderstands with India. In addition, we are trying to sign a phytosanitary agreement with Chi- na and Indonesia. We see a huge poten- tial to export our grain to Asia and hope our trade will only increase. However, we also see big potential to export our grain to our neighbors – Turkey, Egypt, and the EU. We have good communication with such destinations and hope our trade will be mutually beneficial. There are no critical problems for Ukraine, which can be like a disaster. We see the big demand for our grain from all over the world and understand that we can sell our grain anyway because we have good quality and a nice price.