Corn (maize) ports and hubs in The Black Sea
19 ports and hubs in the Black Sea handle corn (maize), across 7 countries: Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Türkiye, and Ukraine. Grades: Yellow Corn (Maize) and Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM).
ExportImportCrushing / transitInland river
Open the interactive mapPrices, price history and the 5- and 10-year seasonal comparison are on the interactive map, with the source and date of every figure.
Grades
- Yellow Corn (Maize) (8.0% - 9.0%) - Energy-rich feed grain and starch feedstock. Massive imports into Iberian and Italian deficit clusters.
- Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM) (8.0% - 9.5%) - Identity-preserved yellow maize certified non-OGM, for dry milling, starch, glucose and flaking grits. Segregated and documented through the chain, which is what the premium over feed maize pays for. Specified on mycotoxins, broken grain and moisture.
Ports and hubs (19)
| Hub | Country | Type | Grades handled |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port of Burgas Burgas Bulgaria's southern Black Sea port. Prices here are European Commission farm-gate quotations for the Burgas district; the Commission's Burgas FOB series ended in 2022. | Bulgaria | Seaport Export | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Port of Ruse (Danube) Ruse Bulgaria's main Danube river port, loading barges down to the Black Sea and up the Rhine-Main-Danube corridor. Prices are European Commission farm-gate quotations for the Ruse district. | Bulgaria | River port Inland river | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Port of Varna Varna Bulgaria's principal Black Sea grain port. Prices here are European Commission farm-gate quotations for the Varna district: the Commission discontinued its Varna FOB series in 2023, and a three-year-old port price is not shown as current. | Bulgaria | Seaport Export | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Port of Poti Poti Georgia's principal Black Sea port and the main entry point for its wheat imports. | Georgia | Seaport Import | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Port of Giurgiulesti (Danube) Giurgiulesti Moldova's only port, on the Danube where it meets the Romanian and Ukrainian borders, loading grain for export. | Moldova | River port Export | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Port of Constanta (Comvex & Chimpex) Constanta Black Sea mega-hub and transshipment powerhouse. Confluence of the Danube-Black Sea canal, loading Capesize and Panamax bulkers with Romanian, Ukrainian, Serbian, and Hungarian crops. | Romania | Seaport Export | Yellow Corn (Maize), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM) |
| Port of Galati (Danube) Galati Romania's largest Danube port and a barge-to-ship transshipment point for grain moving down to the Black Sea. | Romania | River port Inland river | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Astrakhan (Volga delta, Caspian) Astrakhan Volga delta port and, with nearby Olya, Russia's main Caspian route for wheat, barley and maize to Iran and Central Asia. | Russia | River port Export | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Krasnodar (Kuban) Krasnodar Capital of Krasnodar Krai, Russia's second wheat region with about 12% of the crop, and a large maize and sunflower producer. Its grain moves by rail to Novorossiysk, Taman and Kavkaz. | Russia | Inland hub Export | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Port Kavkaz (Kerch Strait) Kavkaz Deep-water anchorage and terminals at the Kerch Strait, where wheat brought down the Azov Sea and Don in small river-sea vessels is topped up into ocean bulk carriers. | Russia | Seaport Export | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Port of Novorossiysk Novorossiysk Russia's largest Black Sea port and the main outlet for its wheat exports. | Russia | Seaport Export | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Port of Taman Taman Russian deep-water grain terminal on the Taman peninsula, facing the Kerch Strait. | Russia | Seaport Export | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Voronezh (Central Black Earth) Voronezh Centre of the black-earth belt south of Moscow, growing wheat, sugar beet, sunflower and maize; grain goes south by rail to the Azov and Black Sea ports. | Russia | Inland hub Export | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Port of Samsun Samsun Turkish Black Sea port on the northern Anatolian coast. Turkey is among the world's largest wheat importers, much of it milled and re-exported as flour. | Türkiye | Seaport Import | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Port of Izmail (Danube) Izmail Ukrainian Danube port that became a principal grain export route when the Black Sea ports were blockaded in 2022. | Ukraine | River port Export | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Port of Mykolaiv Mykolaiv Ukrainian port on the Southern Bug, historically one of the largest grain export hubs in the country; its operations have been heavily disrupted since 2022. | Ukraine | River port Export | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Port of Odesa & Chornomorsk Odesa Historic Ukrainian deep-water grain gateway handling high-capacity export flows into the Mediterranean and worldwide. | Ukraine | Seaport Export | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Port of Pivdennyi Pivdennyi Deep-water Ukrainian port east of Odesa, one of the three ports of the Greater Odesa grain export corridor. | Ukraine | Seaport Export | Yellow Corn (Maize) |
| Port of Reni (Danube) Reni Ukrainian Danube port which, with Izmail, carried much of Ukraine's grain exports while the Black Sea ports were blockaded in 2022. | Ukraine | River port Export | Yellow Corn (Maize) |