Ukraine’s first Black Sea cargo shipment caught up in complex trading networks

When the Razoni left Odesa at the start of this month, the first ship to sail from Ukraine with a cargo of food since Russia’s full-scale invasion was hailed by UN secretary-general António Guterres as carrying two commodities in short supply — “corn, and hope”.

But the world’s most closely monitored vessel has since proved an imperfect symbol of the path towards solving the global food crisis.

After navigating through the mines in…