For the third month now, the Russians have been deliberately sabotaging inspections under a variety of baseless and sometimes absurd pretexts.
The number of new ships to be loaded in Greater Odessa ports as part of the grain deal has been significantly reduced due to the fact that the aggressor country Russia is sabotaging inspections. The Ministry of Infrastructure reported this on Monday, February 13.
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In the past week, 25 ships exported 1.1 million tons of agricultural products to countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. In particular, 54,000 tons of wheat were sent to Sri Lanka, 57,000 tons to Bangladesh, another 90,000 tons are expected in Kenya, Tunisia and Egypt.
Compared to the previous week, the export volume increased by 152,000 tons. But the rate of new ships coming in for loading continues to decline. So, last week the ports received only 16 ships, last week – 25 ships.
The Ministry of Infrastructure indicates that the downward trend in export agricultural vehicles is due to Russia’s actions in the Bosphorus inspection zone. For the third month now, the Russians have been deliberately sabotaging inspections under a variety of baseless and sometimes absurd pretexts. Therefore, on February 12, 145 vessels were waiting in line for inspection by the Joint Coordination Center, of which 122 were sent to Ukrainian ports for agricultural products.
There are 18 ships in the ports of Odessa region. They loaded 584.5 thousand tons of Ukrainian food. At the same time, only one vessel moves along the grain corridor after inspection.
In order to increase the volume of exports in the current conditions and reduce downtime, a decision was made to increase the tonnage of ships participating in the initiative. In particular, for cereals – from 20,000 tons to 25,000 tons, and for sunflower oil – from 6,000 tons to 10,000 tons. Since the average number of inspections of the incoming fleet is only 2.5 vessels per day, an increase in volume should be expected in a month and a half.
“We hope that the issue of slowing inspections will be resolved through the efforts of our partners and the entire civilized world. Ukraine has the right to free commercial navigation in accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and in world – to uninterrupted access to food. Russia must stop imposing its discriminatory policy on the whole world “, the department said.
Earlier on Monday, it became known that Ukraine exported more than 21 million agricultural products during the grain deal.
Also, the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Nikolai Solsky announced the cost of one day of idle ships in the Bosphorus. These delays can last for weeks.
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Source: korrespondent
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