A ship with Ukrainian wheat has arrived in Kenya
13.10.2022 - 09:35
On Wednesday, October 12, the vessel Super Henry arrived at the port of Mombasa in Kenya.
The bulk carrier left Odesa port on September 7; arrived in Kenya on October 12, having spent 35 days on the way, and delivered 51.4 thousand tons of wheat, reports the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
Previously, Ukraine supplied Kenya with up to 300,000 tons of wheat per year, and in the 2021/2022 season (before the start of the war), it shipped a record of 355,000 tons. The country’s annual need for wheat imports is 2-2.2 million tons per year.
In past years, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the tourism and hospitality sectors of Kenya, the largest consumer of wheat products.
According to the forecast of the US Department of Agriculture, due to better weather conditions, wheat production in Kenya in 2022/23 should increase by 20% to 300,000 tons compared to last year. Also, the consumption of food, seed and fodder wheat should recover almost to the level of the beginning of the pandemic, and will amount to 2.25 million tons.
In total, since the beginning of the “grain corridor”, 325 ships with 7.2 million tons of cargo left three Ukrainian ports.
Currently, the UN is working on the extension of the Isnabul Agreements – now one year ahead.
