Saturday’s attack in Odessa, Ukraine, drew international condemnation, coming on the heels of an agreement that many hoped would allow for the safe export of grain.
ODESSA, Ukraine — Dmytro Podrezov’s booming logistics company once sent tens of thousands of tons of grain by ship each year from the port city of Odessa to customers around the world, but the war changed everything.cut off by a Russian naval blockade, the commodity that accounted for at least a third of his company’s revenue is crammed into scarce rail cars and sent by lumbering trucks to meet an insatiable global demand.
Ukraine’s priority is exporting the 20 million tons of grain from last year’s harvest that has been stuck in storage. Alternative routes — through river ports on the Danube or by rail or road to Poland — have created logistical headaches because of long queues and the high cost of fuel. With its Black Sea ports blockaded, Ukraine was exporting about 2 million tons of grain a month — about a third the amount of previous years, according to Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi.
Hours after the agreement was signed in Istanbul, a fellow broker was able to secure a deal with a Turkish company to transport grain from Odessa. The next day, the ship’s owner backed out, spooked by the prospect of further strikes.Andrey Stavnitser, co-owner of Ukraine’s largest port, TIS, near Odessa, understands those risks. For months he paid the salaries of his employees despite the port closure, eventually exhausting the company’s resources.
“What is the value of Turkey’s guarantees? This is the biggest question right now,” he said. “Nobody’s going to shoot back if somebody gets killed.”Others such as Anna Khokholkova, director of Greymar, an Odessa-based logistics company, are even more pessimistic.“This agreement makes sense if they can provide the safety for the vessels for the procedure of loading. After the situation on Saturday, we saw this isn’t possible,” she lamented.
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