The sale to Lebanon of the grain of the first ship from Ukraine fails

The freighter Razoni left the Ukrainian port of Odessa on August 1 after an agreement with Russia was reached after much effort and negotiation.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
08 August 2022 Monday 10:48
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The sale to Lebanon of the grain of the first ship from Ukraine fails

The freighter Razoni left the Ukrainian port of Odessa on August 1 after an agreement with Russia was reached after much effort and negotiation. Later, she underwent an inspection by the Joint Coordination Center while passing through the Bosphorus Strait in order to deliver the cargo of grain to her destination, Lebanon.

All in vain. The Lebanese trader who was scheduled to purchase the grain has rejected the shipment due to the delay in the delivery of the merchandise, initially scheduled for more than five months ago.

Now, the owner of the grain on board is trying to find another consignee both in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli, where the bulk carrier was initially scheduled to arrive last weekend, and in a different country, according to the Embassy.

The failure in the sale of grain aboard the Razoni occurs after Lebanon last Wednesday authorized a Syrian ship that, according to Ukraine, was loaded with grain stolen from its territory, to leave the port of Tripoli and continue on its way to Syria after a week held.

Millions of tons of grain were blocked as a result of the war launched by Russia last February against its territory.

As Ukraine is one of the largest grain exporters in the world, the conflict caused a food crisis that mainly affected countries in the Middle East and Africa, highly dependent on Russian and Ukrainian grains.

After intense negotiations, both countries then agreed on a safe corridor from Odessa to allow the departure from this port of the 20 million tons of grain that had been blocked in their granaries.