Cargill has continued to work to move food and feed from Ukraine, keeping up the pace of shipments even after insurance obstacles, the US agriculture giant’s top shipping executive said.

Cargill Ocean Transportation president Jan Dieleman said the grain corridor in Ukraine has worked fairly well, which was probably unthinkable a year ago.

That positive assessment comes even though he said complications have repeatedly emerged, including December’s move by insurers to pull out of Russia-related risks by applying exclusion clauses.