(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 31, 2006 cargo is stacked high on a China Shipping Line freighter at Miami Beach, Florida.
Ukraine may not be an economic powerhouse like China or the U.S., but its goods have reached unlikely markets across the world.
Possessing over a quarter of all the world’s “black earth,” the most fertile soil with optimal qualities for large-scale agriculture, Ukraine is known as the “Breadbasket of Europe.”