Ukraine's wounded grain giant weathers war with Danube exports

A Cargo ship sails through Bystre rivermouth, which connects the Black Sea and Danube, at a location given as Izmail district of Odesa region, Ukraine in this screen grab obtained from a handout video released on July 15, 2022. Operational Command South press service/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

KYIV (Reuters) - Before he was killed in a Russian missile strike last July, CEO Oleksiy Vadaturskiy decided Ukrainian grain exporting giant Nibulon would build up an export route via the Danube River that would be more secure than precarious wartime sea exports.

With the Black Sea export deal now hanging by a thread 16 months into a war that has devastated the firm he founded, that decision is one reason Nibulon is not bankrupt, said his son and successor Andriy.