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Reuters: Caught in Russia-Ukraine storm – a cargo ship and tonnes of grain

By Reuters.

Published Dec. 5, 2018 at 12:44 pm

Dockers walk in the Azov Sea port of Berdyansk on Dec. 2, 2018.

Photo by AFP

When the Island Bay cargo ship arrived from Beirut at the Kerch Strait, gateway to the Azov Sea, it sailed into a perfect storm of geopolitics and bad weather.