That first ship with grain exports from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression should not dock in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli as planned on Sunday. “We would like to inform you that the arrival of the ship ‘Razoni’ scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed,” the Embassy of Ukraine in Lebanon told AFP on Saturday.
When asked about the The embassy explained the reasons for the postponement that it currently had “no further information”.. According to a source familiar with the matter, the ship is unlikely to dock in Lebanon if it can sell its cargo to a trader in another country.
So far, it had been planned for the freighter “Razoni” to dock in Tripoli on Sunday at 10:00 a.m. local time (09:00 a.m. CEST). The “Razoni” left the port of Odessa in Ukraine on Monday for Lebanon with 26,000 tons of corn on board. Turkish and Russian experts inspected the ship off the coast of Istanbul on Wednesday.