Uralchem Group has announced that a humanitarian shipment of over 23,000 tons of fertilizers for Zimbabwe has been fully loaded onto a vessel in the ports of Riga, Latvia, and Ghent, Belgium, and has started its journey to the port of Beira in Mozambique. From there, the fertilizers will be transported to Zimbabwe by land.
The shipment, comprising bulk loads of potash and NPKS fertilizers, is again facilitated by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), which has chartered a vessel to transport the consignment as part of UNCTAD-led efforts. As with the previous joint deliveries, Uralchem Group covers the sea freight and other delivery costs.
The delivery for Zimbabwe is the Group’s fourth donation in a series of humanitarian shipments of its fertilizers to Africa. To date, Uralchem Group has dispatched over 100,000 tons of fertilizers to the world’s second most populous continent free of charge. Over 77,000 tons from this amount was shipped from ports and warehouses in the European Union in cooperation with WFP to Malawi, Kenya and now to Zimbabwe.
Uralchem Group is committed to donating approximately 300,000 tons of mineral fertilizers to developing nations to alleviate the unprecedented global food crisis and prevent crop losses in countries that face the risk of famine, the Group said. The initiative also supports efforts to meet UN Sustainable Development Goal #2 — “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”.
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