Over the past decade, Ukraine has increased exports of grain cargoes in four times. If about 10 million . Tons of Ukrainian grain was delivered to the world market in 2007 , today 's export figure steadily closer to the mark of 40 million tons. A steady increase in exports each year encourages the development of port terminals, and a large margin capacity. Excess capacity has led to a significant reduction of tariffs for transshipment of grain, increasing its competitiveness in foreign markets . In the 2015-2016 marketing year, grain handling in seaports accounted is more than 39.4 million . The processing of grain cargoes carried out more than 20 terminals. The lion's share of exports - 33.5 million tons - goes through Nikolaevskii and Odessa Commercial Sea Port ( MPT ) , port "Southern" and "Chernomorsk " . Port "Southern" ("Yuzhniy") Power handling - 17 million tons per year . Transshipmen