Geneva – AFP
The United Nations announced that the first ship chartered by the international organization, which is supposed to transport grain from Ukraine, under an agreement, to ease the global food crisis, is expected to dock in Ukraine on Friday.
The United Nations World Food Program announced that the MV Brave Commander, which left Istanbul on Wednesday, is expected to arrive in Yuzhny, east of Odessa on the Black Sea.
WFP spokesman Thomson Ferry said the ship would transport Ukrainian wheat purchased by the World Food Program.
“It is the first humanitarian shipment of food aid under the agreement to transport grain from the Black Sea,” he added.
On July 22, Kyiv and Moscow signed a landmark agreement with Turkey to resume grain exports from the Black Sea following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February.
Turkey has launched a special center in Istanbul at the mouth of the Black Sea to supervise export operations, staffed by civilian and military officials from the warring parties and delegates from Turkey and the United Nations.
The World Food Program bought 30,000 tons of Ukrainian wheat, and the vessel has a capacity of 23,000 tons.
