Two ships with more than 70,000 tons of grain have set sail from the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk, as part of the agreement between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN, the Turkish Defense Ministry announced.
These two departures bring to 12 the number of ships that have left Ukraine with grain since the signing of the agreement on July 22 in Istanbul.
In total, more than 375,000 tons of grain have already left Ukraine, according to the Turkish news agency Anadolu.
One of the ships that left this Tuesday, the “Ocean Lion”, with the Liberian flag, is transporting “64,720 tons of corn to South Korea,” the Turkish ministry announced on the social network Twitter, quoted by the Spanish agency EFE.
The Turkish-flagged “Rahmi Yagci” carries a shipment of 5,300 tons of sunflower seed meal to Istanbul.
At the time the information was released, the Turkish Defense Ministry indicated that the two ships were about ten kilometers southeast of Odessa, the starting point for navigating the maritime corridor provided for in the agreement.
The Black Sea port of Chornomorsk is located in the Odessa region.
The two ships are due to arrive at the Bosphorus on Wednesday afternoon, to be inspected by a team made up of representatives from Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations.
Under the agreement, ships leaving Ukraine are checked to verify that they are only carrying grain, fertilizer or food and not other goods.
Ships heading to Ukraine are checked to make sure they are not carrying weapons.
The joint coordination team in Istanbul will today inspect three ships that arrived on Monday from Ukraine, the UN announced in a statement quoted by EFE.
The agreement was reached in the face of the threat of a world food crisis caused by the blockade of Ukrainian cereals in ports controlled by Russian forces, after the war in Ukraine, started by Russia on February 24.
The war has also affected the world’s supply of agricultural fertilizers, of which Russia is a major producer.
Together, according to the British magazine The Economist, Ukraine and Russia supply 28% of the wheat, 29% of the barley, 15% of the corn and 75% of the world’s sunflower oil.
Source: TSF
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