First Turkish ship goes to Ukraine to take aboard grain

MOSCOW. Aug 4 (Interfax) - The Turkish bulker Ospreys flying the flag of Liberia is on its way to the Chornomorsk seaport in the Odesa region consistent with the Istanbul grain deal; the ship is due to arrive in Ukraine on August 5, spokesman for the Odesa regional military administration Serhiy Bratchuk said.

"The Turkish bulker Ospreys flying the flag of Liberia is on its way from the Dardanelles Strait to the Chornomorsk seaport. The ship departed from the Turkish port of Iskenderun on the last day of July and is due to arrive in Ukraine on August 5. This will be the first ship, which has not been blocked in our ports since February 24 and which will come here to take aboard exported Ukrainian grain," the Ukrainian media quoted Bratchuk as saying on social media.

As reported earlier, MV Razoni flying the flag of Sierra Leone was the first ship to leave the Odesa port with 26,500 tonnes of Ukrainian corn onboard and headed to Lebanon.

Two documents were signed in Istanbul on July 22 with the participation of the United Nations, Ukraine, Turkey and Russia to create a grain corridor from three Ukrainian ports: Chornomorsk, Odesa and Yuzhnyi.