The key step for the start of regular grain transshipments to China was already taken: Grain Terminal Zabaikalsk obtained an accreditation for organization of grain transshipments to China from the relevant authorities of the PRC

The largest grain logistics facility in Russia, Grain Terminal Zabaikalsk, which provides great opportunities for the development of agriculture and export potential of the Urals, Siberia and the Far East regions, launched as the part of the EEF-2022 by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, received official permission from the General Customs Administration of the People’s Republic of China for storage and transshipment of grain products that will be exported to the Chinese market. This is a landmark event for strengthening of trade and economic cooperation between Russia and China.

The PRC imposes strict inspection and quarantine requirements on enterprises interested in exporting agricultural products to its territory. In order to receive status of an accredited exporter of quarantine regulated products, which include cereals, leguminous crops and oilseeds, enterprises must comply with detailed and strict requirements enshrined by international agreements concluded between Russia and China. Accreditation can be obtained only by enterprises that have successfully passed definite control and preventive measures implemented by the Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia’s agricultural safety watchdog, and specialized laboratories under the direct control of representatives of the Chinese General Customs Administration.

The high standards in traceability, biological safety and quality management ensured at the Grain Terminal Zabaikalsk fully comply with all requirements, and in this regard the Terminal has managed to obtain an accreditation for transshipment and short-term storage of grain crops from the Chinese General Customs Administration. This was an important event in the course of implementation of a large-scale project launched by the NLGC Group of Companies, which initial purpose is to double the export potential of grain crop products from the Urals, Siberia and the Far East regions to the PRC.

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The world’s first grain railway terminal is a project of international importance and key element of the New Land Grain Corridor Program, aimed at stimulating agricultural production in the Urals, Siberia and the Far East regions. This facility, with designed capacity of up to 8 million tons per year, will provide a profitable and short route for the export of grain crop products from the above mentioned territories to China by solving the technical problem of the railway tracking difference between two countries, reducing the delivery time from three months (by sea) to two weeks. The project serves to promote sales of domestic agricultural products under the export sanction restrictions. Grain Terminal Zabaikalsk allows to redirect production volumes to an alternative Chinese market, significant in volume.

«The launch of the Terminal lifts infrastructural restraints on the access of domestic (primarily Far Eastern and Siberian) manufacturers and exporters to China, the world’s largest market. The project aims to strengthen Russia’s food security and double the potential of grain supplies to the friendly countries of Greater Eurasia,» Karen Ovsepyan, General Director of the Grain Terminal Zabaikalsk has noticed.

The operator and organizer of the «contract production», elevator infrastructure, as well as the holder of export contracts, is represented by the «Food Export Trade» Company, which is also a member of the «New Land Grain Corridor» Group of Companies.