Rapeseed (canola) map: ports and hubs
GrainsMap lists 49 ports and hubs that handle rapeseed (canola), in 15 countries across Europe, the Black Sea, North America, and Oceania. Grades covered: Rapeseed (Canola).
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By region
- Europe (24)
- The Black Sea (6)
- North America (6)
- Oceania (13)
Grades
- Rapeseed (Canola) (19.0% - 22.0% (Oil 40-42%)) - Key European oilseed crop for biodiesel (FAME/HVO) and food-grade culinary vegetable oil.
Ports and hubs (49)
| Hub | Country | Type | Grades handled |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horsham (Wimmera, Victoria) Horsham Centre of the Wimmera, Victoria's main grain and pulse district. Wheat, barley and canola move by rail to Geelong, Portland and Melbourne. | Australia | Inland hub Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Kwinana Grain Terminal Kwinana Australia's largest grain export terminal, south of Perth, shipping Western Australian wheat, barley and canola to Asia and the Middle East. | Australia | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Merredin (WA Wheatbelt) Merredin CBH Group's largest inland receival point in Western Australia, in the central Wheatbelt. Grain moves by rail to the Kwinana export terminal. | Australia | Inland hub Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port Adelaide (Outer Harbor) Adelaide South Australia's principal grain export port, at Outer Harbor. | Australia | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port Kembla Wollongong New South Wales grain export terminal south of Sydney. | Australia | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port Lincoln Port Lincoln Grain export port for the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. | Australia | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Albany Albany Western Australian grain port serving the southern wheatbelt. | Australia | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Esperance Esperance Western Australian grain port serving the south-eastern wheatbelt. | Australia | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Geelong Geelong Victorian grain export port on Corio Bay. | Australia | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Geraldton Geraldton Western Australian grain port serving the northern wheatbelt. | Australia | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Newcastle (NSW) Newcastle New South Wales grain export port serving the northern cropping regions. | Australia | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Portland (Victoria) Portland Deep-water port in south-west Victoria, exporting grain from the western Victorian cropping districts. | Australia | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Wagga Wagga (Riverina) Wagga Wagga Regional centre of the Riverina, one of the main wheat, barley and canola districts of New South Wales, with GrainCorp storage and rail to Port Kembla. | Australia | Inland hub Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Ghent (North Sea Port) Ghent Biofuel and compound feed powerhouse. Euro-Silo’s Grootdok and Sifferdok complexes hold around 650,000 MT, among the largest in Europe. | Belgium | Seaport Crushing / transshipment | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| 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 | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Alberta (Calgary) Calgary Western prairie province, strong in barley and canola and closest to the Pacific ports. Prices here are Statistics Canada provincial farm-gate averages, not quotations at Calgary. | Canada | Inland hub Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Manitoba (Winnipeg) Winnipeg Eastern prairie province and historic centre of the Canadian grain trade. Prices here are Statistics Canada provincial farm-gate averages, not quotations at Winnipeg. | Canada | Inland hub Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Prince Rupert Prince Rupert Northern British Columbia export terminal, on a shorter sailing to Asia than Vancouver. | Canada | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Saskatchewan (Regina) Regina Canada's largest wheat, durum and canola producing province. Prices here are Statistics Canada provincial farm-gate averages, not quotations at Regina. | Canada | Inland hub Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Thunder Bay Thunder Bay Canada's Great Lakes grain port at the head of Lake Superior, shipping prairie wheat, durum and canola east through the St. Lawrence Seaway. | Canada | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Vancouver Vancouver Canada's largest grain export port and the Pacific gateway for prairie wheat, durum, canola and barley bound for Asia. | Canada | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Muuga Grain Terminal (Tallinn) Tallinn / Muuga The largest grain storage and loading facility in the region: 300,000 t across 48 silos, with 17.3 m quays taking vessels up to 120,000 DWT. | Estonia | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Chalons-en-Champagne Hub (Marne) Chalons-en-Champagne Champagne chalk-country origination. High-yielding soft wheat and malting barley railed to Rouen, or trucked north to the Belgian and German maltings. | France | Inland hub Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Chartres Cereal Hub (Beauce) Chartres The Beauce, France’s flattest and most productive wheat plain. Cooperative silos load unit trains north to Rouen and Dunkirk for export. | France | Inland hub Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Orleans Cereal Hub (Loiret) Orleans Loire valley origination at the heart of Axereal country. Soft wheat and barley move by rail to the Atlantic and Channel export terminals. | France | Inland hub Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Rouen (Sénalia & Simarex) Rouen Western Europe's undisputed #1 grain export port. Located on the River Seine in the heart of the Paris Basin grain belt, exporting millions of tons of wheat and barley each season. | France | River port Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Leipzig-Halle Cereal Hub Leipzig Central German origination on the Leipzig lowland, railing wheat, rye and rapeseed north to Rostock and Hamburg for export. | Germany | Inland hub Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Magdeburg Elbe Hub Magdeburg Elbe river port for the Saxony-Anhalt Boerde, some of Germany’s richest loess soils. Barges run down the Elbe to Hamburg, unit trains to Rostock. | Germany | River port Inland river | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Hamburg (ADM & Rethe Silos) Hamburg Major German export and processing hub on the Elbe. Famed for high-protein German A-wheat and extensive rapeseed/feed processing facilities. | Germany | River port Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Rostock (Grossilo) Rostock Baltic deep-sea export port for Mecklenburg and eastern German crops, loading wheat, barley and rapeseed on a 13 m draft. | Germany | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Freeport of Riga Riga Latvia’s largest port and its main grain outlet, where agricultural cargo runs about a third of throughput and locally grown wheat dominates. | Latvia | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Jelgava Cereal Hub (Zemgale) Jelgava The Zemgale plain, Latvia’s breadbasket. Flat, fertile and rail-connected to Riga and Ventspils for Baltic export. | Latvia | Inland hub Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Liepaja Liepaja Ice-free Courland port where bulk cargo is dominated by grain, serving the western Latvian arable belt. | Latvia | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Ventspils Grain Terminal Ventspils Dedicated grain terminal with 100,000 t of simultaneous storage and over 2 Mt a year of throughput, also handling rapeseed, meal and soybeans. | Latvia | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Kaunas Cereal Hub (Nemunas) Kaunas Central Lithuanian origination in the Nemunas basin, railing wheat and rapeseed the short distance west to Klaipeda. | Lithuania | Inland hub Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Klaipeda (KLASCO & Bega) Klaipeda Ice-free Baltic export terminal and the volume outlet for Lithuanian and wider Baltic grain, with KLASCO and Bega handling wheat and rapeseed. | Lithuania | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Vlissingen-Terneuzen (Zeeland) Vlissingen Deep-water Scheldt terminals handling oilseeds and meal for the Zeeland crushers, with direct barge access to Ghent and Antwerp. | Netherlands | Seaport Crushing / transshipment | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Gdańsk & Gdynia (BTZ) Gdańsk / Gdynia Poland's prime Baltic agribulk terminal complex. Connecting Polish grain rail corridors with Baltic export routes. | Poland | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Gdynia (BTZ) Gdynia Poland’s primary grain export and transshipment gateway. The Baltycki Terminal Zbozowy and Viterra berths load Polish wheat, rye and rapeseed. | Poland | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Poznan Cereal Hub (Wielkopolska) Poznan Greater Poland origination, the country’s most intensive arable and pig region. Unit trains run north to Gdynia and west to Szczecin. | Poland | Inland hub Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Novosibirsk (Western Siberia) Novosibirsk Rail hub of western Siberia on the Trans-Siberian, gathering spring wheat and barley from Siberian farms for the domestic market and rail exports towards China and Central Asia. | Russia | Inland hub Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Norrkoping (Braviken) Norrkoping Ostergotland’s Baltic outlet on Braviken bay, exporting grain and oats from the central Swedish plain. | Sweden | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Vasteras Malaren Hub Vasteras Lake Malaren inland port for the Malardalen grain belt, shipping through the Sodertalje lock to the Baltic. | Sweden | River port Inland river | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| 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 | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| 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 | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| 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 | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| 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 | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Hull & Immingham (Humber) Hull / Immingham East coast grain complex exporting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire wheat and barley, and importing animal feed raw materials for the northern mills. | United Kingdom | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |
| Port of Ipswich Grain Terminal Ipswich The UK’s leading grain export port, handling over 2 Mt a year out of the East Anglian arable belt. | United Kingdom | Seaport Export | Rapeseed (Canola) |