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Two ships with more than 70,000 tons of grain left the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk on Monday, under the agreement between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN, the Turkish Defense Ministry announced.
With these two games, the number of ships that 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 departed that day, the Liberian-flagged “Ocean Lion,” is transporting “64,720 tons of corn to South Korea,” the Turkish ministry announced on Tuesday. twitter social networkquoted by the Spanish agency EFE.
1️⃣ Tahıl sevkiyatı kapsamında bu sabah;
▪️Liberya bayraklı OCEAN LION isimli gemi, Çernomorsk’tan Güney Kore’ye 64 bin 720 ton mısır,
▪️Türk bayraklı RAHMİ YAĞCI isimli gemi de Çernomorsk’tan İstanbul’a 5 bin 300 ton dökme ayçiçeği küspesi getirmek üzere hareket etti.
— TC Millî Savunma Bakanlığı (@tcsavunma) August 9, 2022
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 see if transport only cereals, fertilizers or foodand not any other good.
Ships heading to Ukraine are checked to make sure they are not carrying weapons.
The joint coordination team in Istanbul will inspect three ships that arrived from Ukraine on Tuesday, the UN announced in a statement cited 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: Observadora
