Joint Coordination Center inspects ships carrying grain from Ukraine

ISTANBUL

The Joint Coordination Center comprising representatives of Türkiye, Ukraine, Russia and the UN on Sunday inspected the ships exporting grain from Ukrainian ports.

As part of a recent grain export deal signed between Türkiye, the UN, Russia, and Ukraine, the Liberian-flagged ship Osprey S anchored in the north of Istanbul. The ship will now depart for the Chornomorsk port of Ukraine.

Also, the Maltese-flagged ship Rojen carrying 13,000 tons of corn from the Ukrainian Chornomorsk port en route to England anchored in the north of Istanbul on Saturday evening. Its inspection has been completed and it will pass through the Istanbul Strait on its way to England.

The inspections of the ship lasted about one and a half hours.

After inspecting the two ships, the team went to inspect the Türkiye-flagged Polarnet ship that arrived off the coast of Istanbul on Saturday with 12,000 tons of corn.

The ship is expected to head to the port of Derince in Türkiye’s northwestern province of Kocaeli after inspection.

On July 22, Türkiye, the UN, Russia, and Ukraine signed a deal in Istanbul to reopen three Ukrainian ports for the export of Ukrainian grain, which had been stuck for months due to the Russia-Ukraine war, now in its sixth month.

To oversee Ukrainian grain exports, the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul was officially launched on July 27, comprising representatives from the three countries and the UN to enable safe transportation of commercial foodstuffs and fertilizers by merchant ships.

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