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The Ukrainian security service demanded that the state-owned United Mining and Chemical Company halt the shipment of ilmenite to Czech Belanto due to suspicions of supplying Ukrainian raw materials to Russian-occupied Crimea.
This is stated in a letter from the OGHK security service, addressed to the deputy director of the board of the state company Tatyana Gogenko, which is available for publication.
“In order to avoid the prerequisites for damage to state security, invasions of territorial integrity and the inviolability of Ukraine, I ask that you stop the shipment of any product in favor of Belanto under this contract until all circumstances are clarified. “says the letter.
At the same time, the head of the OGHK Artur Somov, despite the request of the SBU, left the shipments to Belanto effective.
This time, the BOGDAN ship left the Turkish port of Tros for a 10,000-ton batch of ilmenite concentrate produced by Irshansky GOK. It arrived at the port of Ilyichevsk on November 27. The ship is currently waiting to be loaded into the roadstead.
According to the vessel tracking system, the Syrian vessel SOURIA with the first batch of ilmenite from the Czech Republic Belanto unloaded in the port of Kerch, Russia, on November 25.
SOURIA has already reached the Bulgarian port of Varna, where it is possible that the second batch of ilmenite will be transshipped to the vessel BOGDAN. After loading in Ilyichevsk, this ship will meet you. It is also likely that both vessels will meet for transshipment in the neighboring port of Constanta, as happened when the first batch of ilmenite was shipped to Crimea via Belanto.
Therefore, the second batch of ilmenite under the contract with Belanto will be shipped to Russia and then to Dmitry Firtash’s Titan of Crimea. The Crimean plant for the production of titanium dioxide will receive for processing 20 thousand tons of ilmenite from 50 thousand tons provided for the Czech “board” under an agreement with the OGCC.
As reported, the contract with the Czechs replaced the contract with the German ITS, which in August this year shipped 25 thousand tons of ilmenite Irshan to the Titan of Crimea. The deal with the Czechs was concluded on October 13, 2020 by Somov to redirect shipments of ilmenite to Crimea.
The first batch of ilmenite – 10 thousand tons, the Czechs loaded onto the SALVINIA ship in the port of Ilyichevsk on November 11.
And then it was recharged to SOURIA in the port of Constanta on November 12.
