The “Alppila”, Finnish-flagged, arrived this Monday at La Coruna, in Galicia, in northwestern Spain, where it will unload the corn for animal consumption, the AFP news agency reported.
According to the Galician Association of Manufacturers of Compound Foods (Agafac), the shipment was first transported by truck to Romania and Poland, before being shipped in the Polish port of Swinoujscie, on the Baltic Sea.
It then made a stopover in Brunsbuttel, in northern Germany, before heading to Spain.
This is the “first grain shipment through a new sea route opened by the Baltic to circumvent the blockade to which the Russian Navy has subjected the Ukrainian ports of the Black Sea since the war began,” said Agafac.
Meanwhile, the UN, and countries such as France and Turkey, are pressing for the opening of a maritime corridor in the Black Sea that allows the resumption of Ukrainian exports.
At the end of last month, the next commander of US forces in Europe, General Chris Cavoli, explained that Germany had established “a railway bridge” with Ukraine, a large grain producer, to help it export the grain that was accumulating in the country due to the Russian blockade.
The German railway company “is extracting huge quantities of grain at the moment, via Poland, in the direction of the ports of northern Germany, for export,” he said.
This arrival of 18,000 tons comes a day after the Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister, Dmitri Senik, announced that his country had established two routes for grain exports through Poland and Romania and that it was negotiating a third corridor with the Baltic countries. for food exports.
Ukraine and its allies accuse Russia of blocking food supplies from Ukrainian ports with its naval forces.
Moscow rejects this accusation and asserts that maritime food exports from Ukraine they are paralyzed because the kyiv forces mined the country’s ports.
In addition, it argues that the unilateral sanctions imposed against Russia caused cuts in supply chains and international financial flows.
According to the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, kyiv currently exports 2 million tons of grain per month by train, a figure markedly lower than what it used to export before the war from its ports, mainly Odessa.
Source: Ambito
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