Posted on 11/27/2023 11:58:19 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Grain thunders into rail cars and trucks zip around a storage facility in central Ukraine, a place that growing numbers of companies turned to as they struggled to export their food to people facing hunger around the world.
Now, more of the grain is getting unloaded from overcrammed silos and heading to ports on the Black Sea, set to traverse a fledgling shipping corridor launched after Russia pulled out of a U.N.-brokered agreement this summer that allowed food to flow safely from Ukraine during the war.
“It was tight, but we kept working … we sought how to accept every ton of products needed for our partners,” facility general director Roman Andreikiv said about the end of the grain deal in July. Ukraine’s new corridor, protected by the military, has now allowed him to “free up warehouse space and increase activity.”
Growing numbers of ships are streaming toward Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and heading out loaded with grain, metals and other cargo despite the threat of attack and floating explosive mines. It’s giving a boost to Ukraine’s agriculture-dependent economy and bringing back a key source of wheat, corn, barley, sunflower oil and other affordable food products for parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia where local prices have risen and food insecurity is growing.
“We are seeing renewed confidence among commercial operators keen to take Ukrainian grain cargoes,” said Munro Anderson, head of operations for Vessel Protect, which assesses war risks at sea and provides insurance with backing from Lloyd’s, whose members make up the world’s largest insurance marketplace.
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Amazon?
They will be lucky to get 10% out under this plan.
More Pollyanna-ish propaganda from The Associated Hamas...
Who is harvesting the grain? The women?
I saw a video a couple of days ago of the newest conscript class into the Ukranian army. Wasn’t one person there in uniform that was under 50 years old, most were obviously in their 60s, And every one of them had an expression on their face of knowing that they were soon to die for no good reason.
Now they are Muscovites!
What happened to “Orcs” and “RuZZZians?”
You are nothing, if not entertaining.
“We see that even with all the significant help from NATO countries, the Ukrainians have not been able to move the front line during this year, this only confirms the fact that Russia cannot be underestimated,” NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg.
@ukr_leaks_eng pic.twitter.com/nLq1FpUatK— Zlatti71 (@djuric_zlatko) November 27, 2023
Tougher still when your Western transit spots are blocked.
Right now Poland doesn't want Ukraine wheat or any thing else from Ukraine.
Maybe the Ukrainians will help the Russians restore their own power grid if the Russians agree to go home.
That was the old Polish government. They just lost the election. There's a new more strongly pro-Ukraine government coming in.
Other "blockades" have turned out to have been a bit of PR when one reads the less-marketed news articles.
Germany Still Trades Russian Gas as Canceling Costs €10 Billion Bloomberg, 19 October 2023I just checked the weather where we used to live as legal residents of Germany. 32F and snowing.German state-owned company resumes trading in Russian LNG TVP World, 23 September 2023
Europe has increased its imports of Russian gas by sea, regardless of the war in Ukraine Le Monde, 13 September 2023
Why the EU is still buying Russian energy? Deutsche Welle via YouTube, 19 October 2023
French energy giant Total 'funding Russia's war machine', claims NGO Euro News, 10 October 2023
Spanish imports of Russian gas jump in May, nearly 28% of total Reuters, 10 July 2023
Spain and Belgium increased Russian LNG imports, study finds EU Observer, 31 October 2023
Without Plan B, Europe Clings On To Russian Oil & Gas Forbes, 1 September 2023
Now the zeepers post the despicable Asspress.
Why the EU is still buying Russian energy? Deutsche Welle via YouTube, 19 October 2023From your link:
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the European Union has radically reduced its imports of coal, oil and natural gas from Russia. In fact, the bloc's stated goal is to eliminate all Russian fossil fuel imports by 2027. But there is one glaring exception to this trend: Liquefied Natural Gas - or LNG, which the EU has been importing in record volumes from Russia.It's not hard to have record volumes when previous volumes were very low if any.
You think the new liberal government will care less about Polish people/sovereignty and more about the needs/wishes of the EU and Ukraine?
That’s probably correct...
When you grow-up and create your own forum then you can make the rules.
You think the new liberal government will care less about Polish people/sovereignty and more about the needs/wishes of the EU and Ukraine?You thought it was intelligent to post about the sovereignty of a country while Russia is invading a sovereign country.
The Russians are in the Russian Federation - Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
So Crimea a river.
Methinks Lloyd’s of London are making a killing insuring those ships.
5.56mm
Neither will Hungary and Slovakia.
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