The cargo ship ‘MV Greenwich’, tasked with transporting the first batch of Russian fertilizer for the African continent, will arrive at a port in Mozambique before the end of the year after being forced to make a technical stop in South Africa due to inclement weather.
As detailed by the port authorities of the South African city of Port Elizabeth, the ‘MV Greenwich’ had to cast off due to a storm and, in fact, the minimum period of stay was expected to amount up to seven days, as reported by the Russian news agency TASS.
However, the weather conditions have changed in the last hours more than expected and the cargo ship will be able to resume its departure in order to reach the Mozambican port of Beira, in Sofala Bay, on December 31.
The British-flagged ‘MV Greenwich’ left the New Zealand port on November 29 with the first cargo of Russian fertilizer scheduled to be delivered to the African continent since the outbreak of the war in late February.
Once the 20,000 tons of fertilizer from the Russian company Uralchem-Uralkali are unloaded at the port of Beira, the cargo will be transported by rail to Malawi, a landlocked country north of Mozambique.
Uralchem-Uralkali agreed in mid-November to export to the African continent humanitarian shipments of fertilizer that were blocked in warehouses in Belgium, the Netherlands and Estonia as part of sanctions imposed on Russia in response to the war in Ukraine.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
