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Four ships carrying food departed from Black Sea ports in Ukraine on Sunday as part of a deal to unblock the country’s seaborne exports, Ukrainian and Turkish officials said.
The four bulk carriers are loaded with more than 160,000 tons of corn and other food.
The resumption of grain exports is being overseen by a Joint Coordination Center (JCC) in Istanbul, staffed by staff from Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations.
The UN and Turkey brokered the deal last month after UN warnings of possible outbreaks of hunger in parts of the world due to the disruption of grain shipments from Ukraine that had squeezed supplies and sent prices soaring.
Before the invasion, Russia and Ukraine together accounted for nearly a third of world wheat exports.
The JCC announced late Saturday that it had approved the departure of a total of five new vessels through the Black Sea corridor: four vessels departing from Chornomorsk and Odesa carrying 161,084 metric tons of production and one inbound.
The ships that left Ukrainian ports were the Glory, loaded with 66,000 tons of corn bound for Istanbul, and the Riva Wind, loaded with 44,000 tons of corn, bound for Iskenderun, Turkey, the Turkish Defense Ministry said.
It said the other two ships that left Ukraine were the Star Helena, with a cargo of 45,000 tons of meal bound for China, and the Mustafa Necati, carrying 6,000 tons of sunflower oil and bound for Italy.
The first four ships left Ukraine last week under the deal.
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