On Sunday morning, another four ships carrying 33,300 tons of agricultural products left ports in Ukraine. This is reported by the Turkish Ministry of Defense.
The ships departed from the ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhne, carrying sugar beets, vegetable oil and wheat. The final destinations of the ships are Gunsan in South Korea and ports in Turkey.
The departure of the ships was given the green light from a joint coordination center in Istanbul. It was established after an agreement between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations. A humanitarian corridor – controlled by inspectors from the coordination center – allows agricultural products to leave Ukraine. Every ship entering the Bosphorus – the strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara – is monitored by the coordination center, as is every empty ship heading for Ukraine.
Later Sunday, according to Turkey, another six ships will be checked, five of which are empty ships sailing towards Ukraine.
The corridor is intended to bring relief to world food markets. The price of wheat, among other things, rose to a record as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Both countries are major producers of grain, and the war has jeopardized grain exports to world markets.
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