The London insurance market has put the entire Black Sea region on its high-risk list, which means rising shipping costs.
Boris Johnson said the UK was considering all options when asked if the government could provide state guarantees for shipping insurance.
“What the United Kingdom has to offer in particular is experience when it comes to marine insurance, and a lot of experience in moving goods through, say, contested areas of the sea,” he said.
Asked if Britain was ready to help Ukraine clear the area, the prime minister said: “Yes, I do not want to go into technical or military details, but you can take it from what we have already done in supplying equipment to Ukrainians. help defend themselves that we are certainly talking to them on a technical level to help demine Odessa. “
Any demining effort will be the biggest experience since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, and any mine clearance project in Ukraine will take several months.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said separately on Thursday that urgent action must be taken within the next month, before the next harvest, to maintain supplies.
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