The vessel “Asian Majesty” departed from the Gulf of Riga en route to Sri Lanka, carrying a load of 55,000 tonnes of mineral fertilisers.
This is the fourth shipment of mineral fertilisers of Russian origin that were being stored in Latvia and belong to companies subject to the European Union’s sanctions. The previous three shipments, totalling 75,000 tonnes, were delivered to Kenya, Zimbabwe and Nigeria in 2023.
As previously reported, on 6 December 2022, the Latvian government passed a decision to support the donation, through the UN World Food Program, of mineral fertilisers owned by companies subject to EU sanctions.
The United Nations World Food Program continues to organize the removal of approximately 72,000 tonnes of sanctioned mineral fertilizer remaining in the territory of Latvia so as to help the countries most in need of those products.
