By KYIV. Nov 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Another seven ships with 290,000 tonnes of agricultural products for the countries of Asia and Europe left the Ukrainian ports of Chornomorsk, Odesa and Pivdenny on Thursday, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine reports.
"In particular, among them are Esentepe with 29,000 tonnes of sunflower seeds for Oman and Key Knight with 67,000 tonnes of corn for China," the ministry said on its Facebook page.
In total, since the launch of the first vessel with Ukrainian food, 10 million tonnes of agricultural products have been exported, and the number of ships that left Ukrainian ports for the countries of Asia, Europe and Africa with food has reached 430.
As reported, in Istanbul on July 22, with the participation of the UN, Ukraine, Turkey and Russia, two documents were signed on the creation, first, for a period of 120 days, of a corridor for the export of grain from three Ukrainian ports: Chornomorsk, Odesa and Pivdenny. Ukraine set as its goal to export 3 million tonnes of agricultural products per month as part of the initiative.
After Russia announced on October 29 that it was withdrawing from the grain initiative because of an alleged Ukrainian attack on ships in Sevastopol, exports were interrupted for several days, but on October 2 the barriers were finally lifted.
