Importer and blenders of fertilisers in Ireland are expected to experience “outages” on key finished product lines in the coming weeks as the Russian/ Ukraine conflict intensifies. According to Grassland Agro, managing director, Liam Woulfe, there has been a delay in receiving some fertiliser stock during this period, which further shows just how complicated the international fertiliser trading and logistics market is at the present time.
It’s understood that fertiliser manufacturers, importers and blenders require some tome to work on the full impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the geo-political developments that have followed from this within their businesses. Woulfe adds that since last Thursday all their international fertiliser suppliers have stopped quoting prices or committing to any future delivery dates.
Meanwhile reports have emerged that fertiliser shipments are expected to arrive in Ireland within the next few weeks. But many of the shipments are sold forward to many co-op and merchant clients for their own farmer-customers, despite the industry suffering a delay in merchandise shipments due to the conflict. Woulfe comments on the matter by saying that fertiliser merchants will do their very best to facilitate the needs of all their regular customers at the present time. Some of the ships about to dock with the fertiliser were scheduled to arrive in January.
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