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Shipping firm MSC suspends container cargo bookings for Russia -Breaking

by Mike Robinson

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO – Containers with goods from the United Arab Emirates are loaded onto a MSC cargo vessel and unloaded at Haifa, north Israel, October 12, 2020, by a crane bearing Israeli flags. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

LONDON (Reuters] – MSC, world’s top container company, announced Tuesday that it has halted bookings for cargo to Russia. However MSC will accept humanitarian and food cargoes.

Geneva-headquartered MSC said in a customer advisory that it was implementing with immediate effect from March 1 “a temporary stoppage on all cargo bookings to/from Russia, covering all access areas including Baltics, Black Sea and Far East Russia.”

“MSC will continue to accept and screen bookings for delivery of essential goods such as food, medical equipment and humanitarian goods,” it said.

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