Finland will allow a detained fertilizer cargo to depart the country despite it belonging to a sanctioned individual, according to Bloomberg report on March 23, citing Finland’s Foreign Ministry.
The cargo may depart the port of Kotka in southern Finland within days, and at the latest in one week, following an exceptional permit. Such permits can be granted for shipments headed for third countries for the purposes of safeguarding global food security, the Ministry said.
The fertilizer cargo had been detained on March 9 under suspicion of a link to a sanctioned person, whose identity was not disclosed by the authorities, and investigations confirmed that connection. The kind of fertilizer was also not identified.
The Russian vessel Swem was identified as the ship that was detained, according to the Tass news agency.