The Turkish Defense Ministry announced the departure of 4 dry cargo ships with agricultural products from Ukrainian ports towards Istanbul.
“Ukrainian ports have left, and the ships will stand at the docks in the north of Istanbul, where they will be checked by the Joint Coordination Center,” the ministry said in a statement.
We are talking about the dry cargo ship Mustafa Nikati with 6,000 tons of oil, the dry cargo ship Star Helena, which will transport 45,000 tons of sunflower seeds to China, and the dry cargo ship Slava, which will transport 66 tons of corn. to Istanbul, and the Riva Wind cargo ship, which will arrive in Iskenderun with 44,000 tons of corn.
Ukrainian grain is transported from the Black Sea ports as part of a “food deal” signed by Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN on July 22 in Istanbul. This agreement removes restrictions on the export of Russian agricultural products and fertilizers to world markets, and also clarifies how ships with grain can leave Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea through special humanitarian shipping lanes.
The first ship with Ukrainian grain left the port of Odessa on the morning of August 1 and arrived in Istanbul in the evening of the next day.
Source: RIA Novosti