More than quarter of over a half million tons of The United Nations said that grain and other foodstuffs exported from Ukraine since a deal to unblock the blockaded country’s seaports have been shipped to Turkey.
With the increase in traffic momentum across the Black Sea, four more ships on Wednesday left The Turkish Defense Ministry said the ports of Chernomorsk and Odessa carried sunflower flour, sunflower oil and corn.
This raises total number of Ships leave Ukraine’s Black Sea ports under UN-led release plan up In dire need of grain besieged by the Russian war on Her neighbor until 25.
The war and the cessation of all Ukrainian grain shipments and most of the Russian shipments of Grain and fertilizer added significantly to global Food crisis because both countries are the main suppliers of world markets.
developing countries It was special hard-hit Due to shortage in supply and high prices. Although ships are now leaving Russia and Ukraine and some prices have fallen, the food crisis is far from over.
The first merchant ship left on August 1 after Turkey and the United Nations brokered a deal allowing Ukrainian supplies to be shipped to it world markets for help mitigation global food crisis. Three ports are unblocked – Odessa, Chernomorsk and Bivdny with agreement, made possible to send hundreds of in thousands of ton of Ukrainian grain for buyers.
About 563,317 metric tons of Grain and other foodstuffs were shipped from Ukrainian ports to several ports countries As of August 15, a UN statement on Tuesday, citing data collected by the Joint Coordination Center (JCC), said, set up To monitor the Black Sea shipping.
The center, which includes staff from the four parties to the agreement – Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Nations – said it had so far approved 15 ships to travel to Ukraine. pick up Grain, food and fertilizer.
Turkey, Iran and South Korea were the destinations for 70% of The center explained that the exports so far, indicating the deviation of ships from the sea lane on On two occasions, their captains were contacted and advised follow coordinates.
Turkish got 26%. of The data showed that the shipments followed by Iran and South Korea with 22% each. Among others, China got 8%, Ireland 6%, and Italy 5%.
as such of Tuesday 451481 tons of corn 50300 tons of Sunflower meal 41,622 tons of Wheat 11000 tons of Soybean 6000 tons of Sunflower oil 2914 tons of The Joint Coordination Committee said sunflower seeds had been exported.
on Tuesday, and first tanker carrying cargo of Humanitarian food aid is obligatory for Africa set off from Ukraine for Djibouti with geared supplies for consumers in Ethiopia. Loading of the United Nations chartered vessel MV Brave Commander with 23000 MT of wheat and accounting for 4% of total shipments so far.
The ship is expected to reach its destination in Two weeks, Deputy Emergency Coordinator at the World Food Program in Marianne Ward Ukraine said, adding that the humanitarian agency had purchased 60,000 metric tons of wheat so far.
Other shipments are likely to deliver food aid to countries in Middle East and Horn of Africa of Africa regionWard said, adding that the World Food Program is looking into everything options to transport food out of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accepted an invitation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and will meet Thursday. in the West city of Lviv, not far from the Polish border.
The three leaders will review Grain deal and discussion of ways to end the six month-old war.
after the three-way The meeting, possible bilateral talks between Erdogan and Guterres, the United Nations Secretary-General will travel on Friday to Odessa, one of The three Ukrainian ports now operating for shipment of grain. Then he travels to Istanbul on Visit the Black Sea Navigation Coordination Center Saturday.
In spite of latest developments, and world The World Food Program continues to face an unprecedented food crisis, with up to 50 million people in 45 countries on The edge of famine.
Ukraine can export 3 million tons of Grain from its ports in September and will eventually be able to export 4 million tons per month, said Deputy Infrastructure Minister Yuri Vaskov.
He said Ukraine had received requests for 30 ships to come to its ports in The next Two weeks to load the pills while total The volume of exports so far has reached about 600,000 tons.
Although unblocking of Ports, grain exports of Ukraine down 46% year on year At 2.65 million tons so far in The Ministry of Agriculture said this week that the 2022/23 season.
Ukraine exported 948,000 tons of wheat in The first half of August, down From 1.88 million tons in same period a year earlier.