"Black Sea Grain Initiative": Seven vessels enter Ukrainian ports to be loaded with food
DANA HORDIICHUK – TUESDAY, 8 NOVEMBER 2022, 12:56
Source: Oleksandr Kubrakov, the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine, on Twitter
Details: Kubrakov noted that seven vessels entered Black Sea ports on 8 November to be loaded with 131,000 tonnes of agricultural products. Another seven vessels, loaded with 140,000 tonnes of grain, will leave the ports by 9 November.
Earlier, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine reported that 10 million tonnes of Ukrainian agricultural products have so far been exported under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which unblocked Ukrainian ports for food exports.
Today 🇺🇦 BlackSea ports berthed 7 vessels under loading 131K agriculture products. Another 7 ⛴ are laying off the harbour till tomorrow, it will be loaded by 140K cereals. We are ready to do it fast. Finally relocked traffic inbound is good news for world waiting 🇺🇦products.
— Oleksandr Kubrakov (@OlKubrakov) November 7, 2022
Russia has been constantly trying to disrupt the grain deal and "withdrew" from the initiative in late October. A few days later, Russia returned to the deal and the grain corridor for the export of Ukrainian food resumed working "as before".
After the Russians returned to the grain initiative, however, the number of vessel inspections dropped to 8-9 per day, although when carried out by UN and Turkish inspectors the number of inspections reached 46 per day.
On 7 November, 88 vessels were in the queue waiting to enter Ukrainian ports, with another 18 loaded vessels awaiting inspection in Turkish territorial waters.
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