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The Netherlands will release an additional €7.5 million for salvage operations to secure the FSO Safer, the floating oil storage vessel off the coast of Yemen.

Two vital objectives of the Black Sea grain deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey are already being achieved, a senior UN official said, pointing to the steady decrease in international food prices and the increasing availability of badly needed grain from Ukraine as signs of early success.

Neptune Leasing joined the United Nations Global Compact, a corporate sustainable development initiative, which consists of a voluntary platform for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible business practices.

The UK is giving underwater drones to Ukraine and training Ukrainian personnel in Britain to use them to clear their coastline of mines.

The Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) announced a new route for merchant vessels going in and departing from the three Ukrainian ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk, Pivdennyi/Yuzhny under the Black Sea Grain Initiative. The new route is 320 nautical miles long and connects the three Ukrainian ports with the inspection areas inside Turkish territorial waters.

Yemen’s HSA Group has announced a US$ 1.2 million donation to support the UN's efforts to avert a major humanitarian, economic, and ecological disaster in the Red Sea due to the FSO Safer.

Ships exporting Ukraine grain through the Black Sea will be protected by a 10 nautical mile buffer zone, according to long-awaited procedures agreed by Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations.

The Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) has authorized the departure of two vessels through the maritime humanitarian corridor under the Black Sea Grain Initiative carrying a total of 70,020 metric tons of foodstuffs.

The Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) has authorized the departure of two more vessels through the maritime humanitarian corridor under the Black Sea Grain Initiative carrying a total of 59,459 metric tons of foodstuffs.

As the war in Ukraine continues to rage, skyrocketing energy prices are compounding an existential cost-of-living crisis for hundreds of millions of people, warned the UN Secretary-General’s Global Crisis Response Group (GCRG) on Food, Energy and Finance.