The Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Adel Kara Ismailoglu announced today that his country supervised the passage of 585 ships loaded with 15 million and 80 thousand tons of grain from the ports of Ukraine, during August and December through the grain corridor.
In a statement today, regarding the volume of goods transported through the grain corridor in the Black Sea, Ismailoglu said that the war led to the halting of grain transport from Ukraine, which is the most important grain centre in the world, adding: "After this development, diplomatic moves were made." under the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and as a result, grain transport has resumed.
"Between Aug. 1 and Dec. 25, 585 loaded ships departed from different Ukrainian ports, and the total cargo volume exceeded 15,000,000 tons," he added.
He indicated that the ships carried 13 different types of cargo, including barley, wheat, soybeans, sunflower flour, wheat bran, peas, sunflower seeds, sugar beet, sunflower oil, corn and soybean oil.
Ismailoglu said that 171 out of 585 ships transported their cargo to Turkish ports, indicating that the volume of goods that arrived at Turkish ports amounted to 2,247,564 tons. On Nov. 17, the United Nations, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey announced the extension of the Ukrainian grain export agreement for an additional 120 days, two days before the expiry of the agreement reached last July between Ukraine and Russia under the auspices of Turkey and the United Nations.