On 26th August, a second container ship sailed through a temporary Black Sea corridor established by Ukraine’s government, after Russia halted a wartime agreement aimed at ensuring safe grain exports from the invaded country’s ports.
In particular, the Primus, a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier, left the port of Odesa on Saturday morning and was steaming south towards the Bulgarian port of Varna.
To remind, on 17th August, an another container ship had been docked in Odesa since before Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor, the Hong Kong-flagged Joseph Schulte.
The humanitarian corridor was introduced as an effort to ensure safe transfer in the Black sea after Russia refused to renew the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Russia withdrew from the U.N.-brokered grain deal on July 17, with Kremlin officials arguing their demands for the facilitation of Russian food and fertilizer shipments had not been met.
The second vessel has reached Romanian waters after successfully navigating through our temporary Black Sea corridor.
It had been blocked since February 2022, loaded with steel for African consumers.
We defend freedom of navigation with real deeds and the world benefits from…
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) August 27, 2023
