5 minutes agoTwo more wheat ships have left Ukraine
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Two other cargo ships carrying more than 63 thousand tonnes of wheat left Ukraine, according to Turkey's Defence Ministry. ship “Star Laura” with the flag of the Marshall Islands, with 60,150 tons of wheat left the Ukrainian port of Yuzhne for Iran, the ministry announced. She added that another ship, Sormovskiy [...]
ship “Star Laura” with the flag of the Marshall Islands, with 60,150 tons of wheat left the Ukrainian port of Yuzhne for Iran, the ministry announced.
She added that another ship, Sormovskiy 121 with the flag of Belize, with 3,050 tonnes of wheat on board, was launched from the Chornomorsk port to Tekirdag in Turkey.
In a statement, the Joint Co-ordination Centre (JCC), which oversees Ukraine's wheat exports, said it had authorised two cargo ships to travel to the port of Odessa, pending inspections Friday.
The JCC was one of the main agreement on the grain deal agreed last month between Russia and Ukraine under the auspices of the UN and Turkey, Knn reports.
Ukraine's Infrastructure Minister confirmed that the country was expecting the arrival of the Brave Commander cargo ship to charge more than 23 thousand tonnes of grain for export to Ethiopia.
The UN says the <x0-effected effect of the war in Ukraine threatens to exacerbate a food crisis caused by conflict and drought in the East African country.
