July 22 (Reuters) – Shipping group Maersk said on Tuesday it had halted its service via Ukraine’s Chornomorsk Fishing Port, an announcement made after Russia \u200cintensified its attacks on Kyiv’s maritime export routes.<\/p>\n
Maersk is the second \u200clarge company to stop operations out of Chornomorsk this month after Ukraine’s top grain exporter Kernel \u200bHolding halted operations at the city’s main port last week due to a series of Russian attacks.<\/p>\n
Without directly referring to Russian strikes, Maersk in a statement said that due to the current situation affecting its operations, it was unable to continue providing \u200cservice to Ukraine via \u2060Chornomorsk Fishing Port.<\/p>\n
“Therefore, our service via Chornomorsk Fishing Port is temporarily suspended until further notice.”<\/p>\n
Maersk did not immediately respond to a \u2060request for comment.<\/p>\n
Russia has repeatedly attacked Ukraine’s maritime export routes during the war, but the strikes on cargo vessels and deepwater ports that handle much of the country’s \u200bgrain have \u200bintensified in recent weeks. Moscow says its \u200battacks are aimed at infrastructure \u200cstoring military cargo and fuel.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s infrastructure ministry said that the deepwater, Black Sea port of Chornomorsk, as well as other ports of the Greater Odesa area, continued to operate. The Chornomorsk Fishing Port is a separate port operator, it said.<\/p>\n
Maersk said a vessel originally scheduled to be unloaded at the Fishing Port would \u200cbe diverted to Romania’s Constanta, as would all \u200bother import shipments destined for Chornomorsk.<\/p>\n
Ukraine, which previously \u200baccounted for about 6% of \u200bglobal wheat exports and about 11% of global corn exports, \u200chas lost about a third of its \u200bcapacity to export \u200bgrain via its Black Sea ports due to Russian missile and drone attacks, traders and analysts said.<\/p>\n
Ukraine has also been hitting vessels in the \u200bSea of Azov and the \u200cBlack Sea as it seeks to isolate Crimea and undermine Moscow’s \u200bwar effort.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka in Gdansk, additional reporting by Stine \u200bJacobsen in Copenhagen; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 22 (Reuters) – Shipping group Maersk said on Tuesday it had halted its service via Ukraine’s Chornomorsk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[224],"tags":[64850,21753,64954,64953,245,33535,6917,241],"class_list":["post-133613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-maersk","tag-chornomorsk","tag-drone-attacks","tag-export-routes","tag-fishing-port","tag-maersk","tag-russian-missile","tag-service","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116964887351330912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}