Clarification of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy regarding the inclusion of the ports of Olbia and Mykolaiv in the grain agreement

Ships will be able to leave the ports of Olbia and Mykolaiv, but they are not included in the grain agreement, so full-fledged work will not be resumed yet - said the Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solskyi.

"The President of Turkey said that the ships located there will be able to leave the specified ports, but new ships will not enter the ports, as there is no agreement on the resumption of their work," explained M. Solskyi.

The inspection of vessels moving to Ukrainian ports as part of the "grain initiative" by Russian representatives as part of the SCC, suspended since May 7, has now been resumed, but only for the ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk. Currently, 62 vessels are in the queue for inspection, some of them have been waiting for inspection for several months.

The last vessel from the port of Chornomorsk, DSM Capella, left for Turkey under the flag of Barbados with 30,000 tons of corn on May 17, and since then no other vessel participating in the grain initiative has been in Ukrainian ports.

With the normal functioning of the grain corridor, Ukraine could export almost 6 million tons of agricultural products every month from the three ports, but since November, the Russian Federation has been blocking work under new pretexts every time, as a result of which exports decreased to 2.7 million tons in April, and for the period from May 1 to 17 amounted to only 1 million tons.

After the resumption of inspections, the vessels that have been waiting the longest in the queue will be the first to be inspected. If the inspections can be carried out today, the ships will be ready for loading in the ports of Ukraine the day after tomorrow.