Four ships carrying 140,000 tonnes of grain departed Odesa and Pivdennyi ports on October 16.
According to a Telegram post by Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman for the Odesa Regional Military Administration, “today, October 16, four ships loaded with 140,000 tonnes of Ukrainian agricultural products left from Odesa and Pivdennyi ports.”
He claims that EAUBONNE bulker, one of the ships, will transport 53,300 tonnes of wheat to Kenya. The second bulker headed for Kenya is this one. In the port of Mombasa, the first SUPER HENRY bulk carrier carrying 51,400 tonnes of wheat arrived (Kenya).
1.1 million tonnes of food were shipped to Africa over the course of the initiative’s implementation. A total of 120,000 tonnes of grain for the people of Ethiopia, Yemen, and Somalia have already departed from the ports of the Odesa region on five ships that the United Nations World Food Programme has chartered.
According to reports, seven ships carrying Ukrainian agricultural products departed the ports of Odesa and Pivdennyi on October 15 as part of the implementation of the grain initiative.
The initiative on the secure transportation of grains and foodstuffs from the Ukrainian ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk, and Pivdennyi was signed on July 22 in Istanbul by Ukraine, Turkey, and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
On August 1, the first ship carrying Ukrainian food products sailed from Odesa.