The Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni will not call at the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli on Tuesday, August 9, as planned, a source in the port administration told TASS on Monday.
"The supplier of Ukrainian grain said he was looking for a new buyer because the Lebanese customer refused to buy 26,000 tons of corn," he pointed out. - "For this reason, the bulk carrier changed the route and cancelled the arrival at the final destination on August 9."
The source did not specify which port the vessel, earlier located near the harbor of the Turkish Iskenderun, might head for. "A new buyer could be found in any neighboring country, not necessarily Lebanon," the source said.
According to Marine Traffic's vessel tracking service, the bulk carrier's destination column has been changed to "order." This means that the vessel is waiting for a new buyer of corn to be found.
Razoni left Odessa on August 1. On Wednesday, employees of Istanbul's Joint Coordination Center inspected the dry cargo ship at the entrance to the Bosphorus Strait. A delegation of 20 representatives from Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the United Nations checked the documentation for the agricultural products.
On July 22, a package of documents was signed in Istanbul to solve the problem of food and fertilizer supplies to the world markets. One of the agreements regulates the order of grain exports from Kiev-controlled Black Sea ports. A four-party center established by Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and the UN in Istanbul is designed to inspect vessels with grain in order to prevent arms smuggling and exclude provocations.
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Based on materials from TASS