In 2 days, 9 ships with 390,000 tons of agricultural products left Ukrainian ports for Africa, Asia and Europe

UkrAgroConsult

In 2 days, 9 ships with 390,000 tons of agricultural products for Africa, Asia and Europe left the ports of Greater Odesa as part of the “Grain Initiative”.

Among them are the ALANDA STAR and SSI PRIVILEGE bulkers with 68,000 tons of wheat for Egypt and Indonesia, as well as the EUROCHAMPION tanker with 45,000 tons of oil for India.

Ports of Great Odesa load more than 860,000 tons of agricultural products on 24 vessels. Next is waiting for the inspection of the Joint Coordination Center (JCC).

Today, 95 vessels await inspection in the Bosphorus, of which 73 are headed west to the ports for loading, 22 are already with Ukrainian agricultural products. Some vessels have been waiting in Turkish waters for more than a month.

“This is the result of purposeful actions of the delegation of the Russian Federation in the JCC, the purpose of which is to slow down the process of ship inspections. At first, they reduced the number of inspection groups to 3, now they began to extend the time of the inspections themselves. Representatives of the Russian Federation began to check even indicators that are not provided for by the JCC documents and have nothing to do with the subject of the inspection (for example, whether the ship’s units are working well, how much fuel, etc.).

With this algorithm, the inspection of one vessel takes from 4 hours. This is unproductive and contributes to the increase of the queue. An increase in the queue means a decrease in the volume of exports of agricultural products from our ports and millions of losses for cargo owners due to downtime,” explains Yuriy Vaskov, Deputy Minister of Community Development, Territories and Infrastructure.

As of December 25, due to this, Inspection Team #3 has not conducted any inspections. As a result, only 6 out of 10 planned inspections took place per day. A stable “grain corridor” needs at least 12 per day

Currently, 3 ships are moving along the “grain corridor” with 93,000 tons of agricultural products.

Since August 1, 594 ships have left the ports of Great Odesa, exporting 15.5 million tons of Ukrainian food to the countries of Asia, Europe and Africa.

Tags: Ukraine, export, grain