Russia: in August 2018, the deep-sea ports to reduce grain exports

Russian deep-sea ports including Novorossiysk, Tuapse and Taman are expected to ship 1.82-1.92 million tons of grain in August 2018, lower than July and well below August 2017. Rusagrotrans expects total Russian grain exports of about 5 million tons in August and keeps its 2018/19 export forecast at 42 million tons.