A ship with 18,000 tonnes of Ukrainian corn arrives in Spain

A freighter with 18,000 tonnes of Ukrainian corn arrived in Spain on Monday after using the Baltic Sea for the first time, according to an agricultural organization, to escape the Russian blockade. The Finnish-flagged Alppila ship arrived in La Coruña, in Galicia (northwest Spain), this Monday, where it will unload the corn for animal consumption. According to the Galician Association of Compound Food Manufacturers (Agafac), the association that received the order, the corn shipment was first transported by truck to Romania and Poland, before being shipped to the Polish port of Swinoujscie on the Baltic Sea. It then stopped at Brunsbüttel, in northern Germany, before heading to Spain. “This is the first shipment of grain through a new sea route opened across the Baltic to bypass the blockade to which the Russian Navy has subjected Ukrainian Black Sea ports since the beginning of the war,” Agafac said. The Russian invasion launched on February 24 has paralyzed grain exports from ...