11 minutes agoThree more wheat ships leave Ukraine
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Three ships loaded with wheat under a recently concluded agreement have left the Ukrainian ports, Turkey's Defence Ministry said on Friday. The Joint Co-ordination Centre in Istanbul, which groupes Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and UN personnel, said two ships were leaving Chornomorsk and one from Odessa, [...]
The Joint Co-ordination Centre in Istanbul, which groupes Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and UN personnel, said two ships were leaving Chornomorsk and one from Odessa, Reuters writes, broadcast Clankosova.tv.
Three ships carrying a total of about 58 thousand tonnes of corn have been authorized to leave the ports of Ukraine as part of an agreement to unblock grain exports.
Turkey, the UN, Russia and Ukraine signed the historic agreement on July 22nd to reopen three Ukrainian ports -- Odessa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny -- for cereals that have been stuck for months due to the Russian-Ukraine war, which is now in the sixth month.
To oversee Ukrainian grain exports, a joint co-ordination centre in Istanbul officially launched work on July 27th, consisting of representatives from Turkey, the UN, Russia and Ukraine, to enable safe transport from commercial food and waste vessels from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports.
Yesterday, the first grain-loaded ship from Ukraine left for Lebanon after inspections in Istanbul.
