Plan to bypass the Straits on the key issue of grain transport, after Moscow broke off the deal due to the attack on the Crimean bridge. From the Port of Alexandroupolis (Greece) a food corridor will be created to Bulgaria and Romania, for the export of Ukrainian grain to Europe, while Russian grain will be out of the game.
There is a need to create new land corridors to the port in relation to Russia’s withdrawal from the grain deal, causing turbulence in Russia’s plans. They can transport Ukrainian grain overland to Greece at the port of Alexandroupolis and from there send it abroad.
After the signing of the grain agreements, the diversification of food corridors was necessary to avoid similar crises in the future or as an alternative scenario in case of termination of the grain agreements signed in Turkey. Greece can help decisively in the transportation of grain from Ukraine through the ports of Thessaloniki and Alexandroupoli.
In this context, there are storage warehouses of 20,000 tons in the port of Thessaloniki with the prospect of multiplying them to 38,000 in warehouses of the railway transport network. While there are possibilities to store and transship up to 200,000 tons of grain per month from the port of Alexandroupoli.
The Hellenic Railways Organization is already preparing a European transport plan from 2023, to relieve the tolls for the de-escalation of the food crisis due to the war in Ukraine.
The development of the rail corridor in Greece (from Alexandroupolis to Ormenio) to the Greek-Bulgarian border and from there to Central and Eastern Europe has made the Greek port infrastructure a hub for vital US activities. Tanks, AFV, weapons, supplies and personnel move normally from the sea-land transport corridor in Greece.
