About 200 thousand tons of Uralchem's fertilizers are stuck in the port of Riga, the company wants to supply them to Nigeria and Kenya free of charge and counts on getting permission from Latvian authorities, said the company's co-owner Dmitry Mazepin.
"We have about 200 thousand [fertilizers] stuck in Latvia. Last week the Latvian government allowed us to make an inspection of fertilizers, we hope that this permission will indicate that they will allow the shipment. We are planning, as agreed with the African Union, to ship these fertilizers to Nigeria and Kenya", he said in an interview with Rossiya-24.
Mazepin noted that the UN is monitoring the deal.
According to him, the shipment of 20 thousand tons of fertilizers as humanitarian aid to Malawi will be made in January via Mozambique. Earlier the company had agreed to export humanitarian consignments of fertilizers blocked at the warehouses in Belgium, the Netherlands and Estonia to Africa. The first ship for export was chartered by the UN World Food Program.
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Based on materials from TASS