Satellite images have shown that the ship, the signal of which had been lost on August 12, had accosted at the port of Tartous. The “razoni”, the first ship exporting Ukrainian cereals since the start of the war, was initially to arrive in Lebanon.
Le Monde with AFP
Nothing, or almost, will have gone as planned for the first ship exporting Ukrainian cereals since the start of the war. While the razoni signal had been lost on August 12, satellite images showed that it had accosted Monday August 15 at the port of Tartous, Syria, near ally of Moscow.
Images of Planet Labs Pbc analyzed by Financial Times and Associated Press showed the Razoni, beating Sierra-Léonais pavilion, arriving in the Syrian port Monday in the morning. The ship was right next to the grain silos, essential to the country’s wheat supply. 2>
Initial delivery canceled
Razoni is the first boat to have left Ukraine as part of the agreement signed in July by Moscow and kyiv – validated by the United Nations and Turkey – and allowing the resumption of the export of Ukrainian cereals In order to stop the global food crisis.
He had left the port of Odessa on the 1 er August with 26,000 tonnes of corn on board and should have landed in the port of Tripoli, Lebanon, a few days later. However, delivery was canceled shortly before arriving. The Ukrainian Embassy in Lebanon explained that the five -month delivery time had “encouraged the buyer and the sender to agree on the cancellation of the order”.
The ship spent several days at sea before a new buyer for its load manifests itself in Turkey, according to the Middle East Eye information site. The international mail specifies however that said buyer bought only 5 % of the goods from the razoni, before it is on the road to Syria, signal Turn off.
no official kyiv reaction
kyiv, who had praised the initial departure of the ship from the port of Odessa as a sign that Ukraine could send its cereals safely, did not react.
The joint coordination center (CCC), responsible for controlling Ukrainian cereal exports via the Black Sea, as part of the agreements, said on Tuesday that “after the inspection of ships leaving in Istanbul, the CCC stop watching them “.
“The inspected ships then go to their final destinations, whatever they are”, specifies the center.
Tuesday, the Ukraine Embassy in Beirut referred to a previous statement according to which the cargo of Razoni was no longer under the responsibility of kyiv: “Our task was to reopen the sea ports for freight freight cerealier and it was done. “