More than a thousand of various port infrastructure facilities have been damaged in the Greater Odessa area (the ports of Odessa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny) and on the Danube River, the 'Obshchestvennoye.Novosti' portal said. Deputy chair of the All-Ukrainian agrarian council, Denis Marchuk, said that Greater Odessa ports stopped loading grain on ships since July 22. Currently all cargo, including agricultural products, is being shipped via the Danube River and by land, but these alternative routes are not enough to transport everything. According to Marchuk, Ukraine may lose around $1 billion as a result of shrinking exports in all sectors, including agriculture. On July 22, Ukrainian Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Vysotsky announced that ship calls to Ukrainian ports had been suspended by carriers.