Heat Derails Some Grain Cars on Moldova Train Headed to Ukraine River Port

CHISINAU (Reuters) – Six grain wagons in a 61-car prepare headed for a Ukrainian river port derailed in Moldova on Saturday as excessive warmth weakened the rails, the nation’s railway system stated.

“The preliminary explanation for the accident is the extraordinarily excessive temperature, which precipitated the rails to lose their power,” the Moldovan railway stated in a press release.

It stated six wagons carrying grain derailed whereas the prepare was on a bit of the Culma-Ceadir-Lunga line and headed for Reni, a Ukrainian transport hub on the Danube.

Moldovan farmers, who historically export grain and oilseeds to Romania and Turkey, are able to export 800,000 tons of a robust wheat crop of 1.2 million tons this 12 months.

(Reporting by Alexander Tanas)

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