2023-07-14 05:00:00
– Russian blockade returns to threaten Black Sea transport
The corridor through which 32 million tonnes of grain left Ukraine may close on Monday. Moscow invokes the blocking of its own fertilizer cargo ships.
Published today at 07:00
Terminal for temporary storage and loading of grain in the port of Odessa, in August 2022, at the start of the opening of the secure route through a Black Sea locked by the Russian Navy. In retaliation for an explosion on an ammonia pipeline, Russia has just reduced the number of Ukrainian port terminals connected to this maritime corridor. A taste of the looming blockade?
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D-3. Partly negotiated in Geneva under the aegis of the United Nations, the fragile maritime corridor which has allowed, for the past year, nearly a thousand cargo ships to leave Ukrainian ports loaded with corn, barley or sunflower oil , is again threatened with closure. Starting Monday. The last three ships still authorized to engage there sailed from Odessa at the beginning of the week.
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