The first vessel departed from the port of Odesa via the temporary corridor

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The first container ship, the Hong Kong-flagged JOSEPH SCHULTE, set sail from the port of Odesa via the temporary corridor. It is carrying more than 30 thousand tons of cargo (2,114 containers), including food. This was announced on August 16 by Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov.

On August 16, 2023, the container ship, which had been in the port of Odesa since February 23, 2022, left the Vorontsov Lighthouse and is heading for the Bosporus.

The corridor will be primarily used to evacuate ships that were in the Ukrainian ports of Chornomorsk, Odesa, and Pivdennyi at the time of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.

According to Navigational Order No. 6 of the Ukrainian Navy, temporary routes for civilian vessels to and from the Black Sea ports of Ukraine were put into effect on August 8, 2023.

Ukraine proposed this route in its application to the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The IMO Council recognizes Ukraine’s international right to free commercial navigation and calls on Russia to stop any threats and to comply with international conventions.

The last time the vessel left the port of Odesa under the Grain Deal was on July 16. After the disruption of the Grain Deal, the Russian Federation resorted to systematic air attacks on port infrastructure to stop Ukrainian agricultural exports.

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Tags: Ukraine, Black Sea grain corridor