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Liberia-flagged bulker K Sukret, carrying grain under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, waits for inspection in the southern anchorage of Istanbul on May 17, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Mehmet Emin Caliskan)

Zelenskiy says Black Sea grain corridor in doubt without US aid

Conservative Republicans in US House of Representatives threatening to block further military aid

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New York | Reuters -- Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that without new U.S. military aid his country would be unable to defend a Black Sea shipping corridor that has allowed Kyiv to export millions of tons of grain to global markets.
FILE PHOTO: People walk on the beach as a container ship crosses the Gulf of Suez towards the Red Sea before entering the Suez Canal, in El Ain El Sokhna in Suez, east of Cairo, Egypt April 24, 2017. Picture taken April 24, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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More grain ships diverted from Red Sea due to Houthi attacks

Air strikes, naval forces not enough to end attacks on ships, trader says

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More ships carrying grain were diverted from the Suez Canal to sailings around the Cape of Good Hope this week as concern about attacks on vessels in the Red Sea continued, shipping analysts said on Friday.
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More grain ships divert from Red Sea as attacks continue

Millions of tons of grain cargo have avoided the area since December, analysts say

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More ships carrying grain were diverted from the Suez Canal to routes around the Cape of Good Hope this week as attacks on shipping in the Red Sea continued, analysts said on Friday.
(Photo: Reuters/Paulo Whitaker)

Houthi attack on dry bulk ship to boost grain diversions

About twenty per cent of grain shipments diverting around Cape

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An attack on a dry bulk carrier this week in the Red Sea region is set to lead to more diversions of grain cargoes around the Cape of Good Hope but most are still willing to risk using the Suez Canal for now, shipping sources said on Tuesday.
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US reopens key rail crossings between Texas and Mexico

American, Mexican agriculture groups express relief

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said operations resumed at 2 p.m. ET at the international railway crossing bridges in Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas. The closures had prompted alarm from railroads, the agriculture industry and some lawmakers over the economic impact to halted export trade.
File photo of laker vessels navigating the Welland Canal. (JonathanNicholls/iStock/Getty Images)
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Seaway workers ratify labour deal

Deal ended one-week strike on waterway

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Unionized workers on the St. Lawrence Seaway in Ontario and Quebec have voted their approval of the agreement that brought them in off the picket line. Unifor, which represents about 360 Seaway workers across five locals in the two provinces, announced Thursday its members had voted to ratify a three-year agreement retroactive to April 1. […] Read more

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