Ukraine restarts grain shipments, but reaching pre-war levels could take months
Ukraine
Published Aug 3, 2022
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Cautious optimism greets news that a ship loaded with Ukrainian grain, bound for Lebanon, has departed Odesa.A ship carrying Ukrainian grain left the port of Odesa on August 1, the first since Ukraine and Russia last month agreed a deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey to resume exports of foodstuffs via the Black Sea.Russia has been blockading Ukrainian ports since its full-scale invasion of the country began in February, leaving around 20 million tonnes of grain stuck in silos, driving up the price of food across the globe and threatening famine in large parts of the world that rely on Ukrainian grain. Prior to the Russian invasion, Ukraine supplied more than 10 per cent of the world’s wheat.The ship which departed Odesa, a Sierra Leone-flagged vessel, the Razoni, is headed for the port of Tripoli in Lebanon, a country which according to the World Bank faces the world’s most serious food inflation, with prices having risen 332 per cent over the last year.UN ...
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