The Turkish authorities have confirmed this Friday the departure of other three ships with grain from Ukrainian ports of Odessa and Chernomorsk, after the activation of the joint mechanism agreed between Ukraine and Russia, with the Ankara and United Nations mediation.
The Ministry of Defence Turkish has indicated in a series of messages on its account on the social network Twitter that the ship ‘Navistar’, under the Panamanian flag, has left the port of Odessa with destination to ireland and with a load of 33,000 tons of corn.
Ukrayna’dan İrlanda’ya gidecek olan ve 33 bin ton mısır taşıyan Panama bayraklı NAVISTAR isimli gemi Odessa Limanı’ndan hareket etti. Gemi İstanbul’un kuzeyinde Müşterek Koordinasyon Merkezi tarafından denetime tabi tutulacak. pic.twitter.com/xnGxEtnjXS
— TC Millî Savunma Bakanlığı (@tcsavunma) August 5, 2022
He has also indicated that the ‘red’under the Maltese flag, and the ‘polarnet’, under the Turkish flag, have left Chernomorsk with bound for the UK and Turkey, respectively. The ‘Rojen’ carries a load of 13,000 tons of cornwhile the ‘Polarnet’ transport 12,000 tons of this same grain.
The Ministry of Defense has stressed that all of them will have to dock in istanbul to be subjected to an inspection, as contemplated in the agreement reached on July 22. ships they thus join the ‘Razoni’, with the Sierra Leonean flagwhich left Odessa on August 1 with more than 26,000 tons of corn bound for Lebanon.
The Turkish foreign ministerMevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday stressed the importance of the deal being “sustainable”. “The duration of this agreement is four months”he said, before stressing that the agreement could even be the basis for “a comprehensive ceasefire” before the end of the war.