Russia’s grain industry is looking to increasingly niche solutions for shipping wheat as attacks in the Black Sea continue to choke off exports from the world’s biggest supplier.

The latest alternative: a tiny port in the Kremlin-backed separatist region of Georgia.

Logistics operator Modern Way is offering to transport wheat and other agricultural produce from the Ochamchire port in Abkhazia, according to four people familiar with the plans. Several Russia-based traders and brokers are reviewing the proposal to take the crops to Turkey in containers, they said.

The Ochamchire port has a limited capacity, and it’s expensive and unusual to ship grains in containers, a method typically reserved for foodstuffs like high-value spices and perishable bananas. The proposal underscores the lengths that the industry is going to in its efforts to keep grain flowing. The attacks in the Black Sea are squeezing revenues for farmers and traders, and the Kremlin has been using both pressure and incentives to maintain Russia’s dominant position in the market.

Russia accounts for about a fifth of the global wheat trade and its Black Sea ports handled about 90% of exports. Attacks between Russia and Ukraine have virtually halted shipments from the two nations’ grain hubs, causing wheat prices to spike to a three-year high in August and spurring a search for new transport routes.

For Russia, that’s meant tapping the Arctic port of Murmansk and ports in the Baltic Sea. It’s been transporting grains to the Far East via rail. Its traders have also stepped up the use of containers, which are now traveling thousands of miles across Russia to ports as diverse as St Petersburg and Vladivostok on the Pacific. But so far, these alternatives have fallen short of the required volume.

“Russia’s willingness to consider virtually every available export outlet indicates that security and continuity of supply are becoming almost as important as conventional freight economics,” said Swithun Still, a consultant who spent decades trading grains. It “tells us how seriously exporters are taking the disruption to their traditional Black Sea logistics.”It’s not yet clear how many traders will choose the Ochamchire route, said the people who asked not to be named because they weren’t authorized to disclose commercial information.

The terminal is ready to start shipping grains to Turkey’s Gebze, pending the opening of a quality inspection service by the end of next month, said an employee at Modern Way who asked not to be named because they weren’t authorized to talk to media.

The company transports containers by sea and rail, and has offices in Russia and China, according to its website. It also handles air freight and storage.

Modern Way, the Ochamchire port administration, Abkhazia’s ministry of economy and Russia’s ministries of transport and agriculture didn’t respond to emails seeking comment.

Abkhazia broke away from Tbilisi in the 1990s, but most of the world recognizes it as part of Georgia. Russia recognized its independence in 2008 following its brief war with Georgia. The Ochamchire container port was completed last year with Russian financial backing amid Moscow’s push to diversify its Black Sea logistics network.

Grains are typically transported in dry-bulk vessels with capacity that can even exceed 100,000 tons. A standard 20-foot container can carry about 23 tons of grains, requiring extra cost and time to load, according to freight specialists Kpler.

Shipping wheat in containers got a boost in recent months thanks to Russia’s railway subsidies and a collapse in domestic wheat prices as unsold grain piles up on farms. That’s helped partly offset their high freight costs.

“Container shipments have moved into this economic gap,” said Arkady Zlochevsky, head of the Russian Grain Union, which represents the local industry. “But they are more expensive, so nobody sees them as a long-term solution for cargoes of this size.”