Grain exports help revive rivers; new law may pollute Dnipro

Nature gave Ukraine’s economy the Dnipro River — the fourth-longest river in Europe that big businesses can use to transport cargo to the ports of the Black Sea.

The problem: only two industries are using the river for this purpose, agriculture, and metallurgy. The share of rivers in the country’s cargo transportation last year reached a modest 1%. Vessels with barges — mainly driven by the needs of grain exporters and metallurgists — carried 15.8 million tons of cargo.