In the ports of Chornomorsk, Odessa and Pivdenny, 10 vessels are ready to be loaded as part of the “grain initiative”, more than 40 applications are expected to call at Ukrainian ports, Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov said on his Facebook page in Friday.
According to the Minister of Infrastructure, work is underway to ensure that the volumes and rates of transshipment of agricultural products increase to 3-5 million tons per month.
Kubrakov noted that during the operation of the “grain initiative” 25 ships were sent from the three ports of the Odessa region, with a total of 630 thousand tons of agricultural products on board.
“We pay special attention to food exports for African countries. Another bulk carrier I Maria left yesterday, carrying 33,000 tons of agricultural products for the north of the continent,” he said.
As reported, in Istanbul on July 22, with the participation of the UN, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine, two documents were signed on the creation of a corridor for the export of grain and other agricultural products from three Ukrainian ports: Chornomorsk, Odessa and Pivdenny.
UN Secretary General António Guterres, who signed this document on July 22, visits the port of Odessa on Friday, accompanied by Kubrakov.
It is expected that on the same day, also in Odessa, the negotiations of the UN Secretary General with the Presidents of Ukraine and Turkey Volodymyr Zelensky and Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the issue of “grain corridors” for the export of Ukrainian agricultural products will continue.
