The Ukrainian Embassy in Lebanon was left in the port of Tripoli over the weekend. The long-awaited Razoni has finally not docked as planned in the port city… And no one knows where he is going. The boat sailing under the flag of Sierra Leone left Odessa on August 1 with 26,500 tons of corn on board, heading for the country of Cedars. It is the very first ship to leave the Ukrainian city since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24. A departure that was made possible by an agreement signed with Russia in Istanbul on July 22, with the aim of combating the global food crisis and rising prices in some of the poorest countries.
“Its owner (from Razoni, editor’s note) informed me that he was no longer going to the port of Tripoli,” Ahmad Tamer, director of the Lebanese port, told the newspaper Les Échos laconically. The boat is therefore currently anchored off Turkey. The goods will probably not be unloaded in Lebanon if the owner of the Razoni manages to sell it elsewhere. Delivery to Syria would be considered.