Ukrainian Wheat Ship Departs for Egypt

A ship left Ukraine carrying wheat bound for Egypt

Ukrainian officials announced on Friday that a ship loaded with wheat has set sail from a port in the country heading towards Egypt. They clarified that this is the second time this week that a ship has used the maritime corridor established by Kyiv to bypass the blockade and threats from Russia.

Oleksandr Kubrakov, Ukraine’s Minister of Infrastructure, announced on the X network that the ship Arroyat, carrying 17,600 tons of wheat, has left the port of Chornomorsk bound for Egypt. The first ship loaded with wheat also departed from the same port on September 19.

While Ukraine aims to create safe maritime routes for exporting its agricultural products, Moscow has pulled out of an agreement that allowed the transfer of Ukrainian agricultural products through the Black Sea.

The new maritime corridors, which extend along the coasts of allied countries to the Bosphorus Strait in Turkey, ignore Russian threats to sink ships entering and leaving Ukrainian ports.

Russia has not attacked these corridors but regularly bombs grain facilities at Ukrainian ports.