This weekend the Turkish-flagged cargo ship sets sail from the port of Odessa tq samsun with 23,500 tons of corn and 15,300 of rapeseed destined for the port of Rotterdam, SIA refers to foreign media.
It may be the last to do so under the agreement that a year ago unblocked exports through the Black Sea, which has allowed 1,140 ships to have transported a total of more than 32 million tons of food products and fertilizers despite the war in Ukraine.
That pact, almost the only point of understanding between Kiev and Moscow since the Russian invasion, signed by the governments of the two countries and sponsored by the UN and Turkiye, expires on Monday, July 17.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given the first signs of renewal expectations this Friday by assuring that Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown himself in favor of prolonging it.
Neither the UN nor Kiev have so far ruled on that announcement, while the Kremlin has shown some distance by assuring, through its spokesperson, that no statement has been made on the agreement.
The only explicit one has been Erdogan: “We are preparing to receive Putin in August and we agree to the expansion of the grain corridor in the Black Sea,” the Turkish president told reporters after leaving prayer on Friday, reports Agence France Presse.
The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, from Jakarta, wanted to influence the need to renew it, but regretted: “Russia once again uses food as a weapon by threatening to end the grain initiative.”
“If Moscow carries out its threat, developing countries, including those in the region, will pay for it in the form of higher prices and worsening food shortages,” Blinken stressed after a meeting in Jakarta (Indonesia) of the Association of Nations of Southeast Asia (ASEAN).
The continuity of the pact, as the UN recalls, is “fundamental” to control the rise in food prices and combat the food and agricultural crisis that affects the poorest countries on the planet.
Dmitro Borinov, deputy head of the Ukrainian port authority, gives a 50% chance that the deal will be extended. “I am optimistic,” he said this Friday during an interview with EL PAÍS in Odesa.
“Probability is not very high, maybe 20% or 25%”, estimated, instead, Volodimir Slavinskii, commercial director of Nibulon, one of the giants of the grain trade in Ukraine, during a meeting on Wednesday in Kiev.
In any case, both acknowledge that they are not involved in high-level negotiations to try to save the pact. “We are just waiting,” says Borinov.
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