ISTANBUL,
Turkey — The first grain ship to leave
Ukraine under
a UN-backed deal last week docked in Turkey on Wednesday, marine traffic sites
showed, following a report that it has finally found a buyer for its maize.
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The Sierra Leone-flagged vessel
Razoni left the
Ukrainian port of Odessa on August 1 carrying 26,000 tonnes of corn and had
been expected to dock in the Lebanese port of Tripoli last weekend.
But Ukrainian officials said the shipment’s
five-month delay caused by Russia’s invasion prompted the Lebanese buyer to
cancel the deal once the ship was already at sea.
Marine traffic sites showed the Razoni docked in
Turkey’s Mediterranean Sea port of Mersin after spending several days anchored
just off the coast.
The Middle East Eye news site cites a shipping agent
as saying that a Turkish buyer has been found for the maize.
The “cargo sold. .... It will (unload) at Mersin,”
Ahmed Al-Fares of the Ashram Maritime Agency told the news site.
An agreement signed by the warring parties with UN
and Turkish officials in Istanbul last month lifted a Russian blockade of
Ukraine’s ports and established safe corridors through the mines laid by Kyiv
to ward off any amphibious assault by Moscow.
The top UN official overseeing the deal said on
Wednesday that the first 12 ships to leave Ukrainian ports under the deal were
mostly carrying corn instead of wheat because that was the harvest stored in
silos at the time of Russia’s invasion.
“We’re actually transitioning to wheat,” Frederick
Kenney told reporters.
“We have cleared the first ship inbound” to Ukraine
through the Bosphorus Strait to pick up the wheat, he said. “That should occur
sometime next week.”
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