Macron favours land routes to Romania from Odesa whereas Ankara wants to use shipping lanes through Black Sea
Rival plans to export Ukraine’s vitally needed grain have been drawn up by France and Turkey, as concern grows over the potential impact on the world’s poorest people of failures so far to get the grain out of the country.
Italy’s prime minister, Mario Draghi, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and French president, Emmanuel Macron, in Kyiv on 16 June., that would allow a UN convoy to police grain ships that left the Ukrainian-held Black Sea port of Odesa and other ports and then sailed towards the Bosphorus. But the French president, Emmanuel Macron, is sceptical that a UN resolution will be agreed and is proposing instead a massive stepping up of grain exports out of Romanian ports.
It would take two weeks to de-mine the harbours and then it would be necessary to empty the silos in time for September and the new harvest. “Odesa is a few dozen kilometres from Romania, and through Romania [we would] be able to access the Danube and the railway,” he said. “We are in the process of creating a kind of connection point where we could export this grain much more strongly, quickly and massively than we do today.”
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