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The number of wagons with grain moving in the direction of the ports of Big Odesa, in the conditions of the unpredictability of the work of the grain corridor observed due to Russia's actions, has decreased since the beginning of June by 41.68%, to 1,553 units, follows from the memorandum of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia.
The number of wagons with grain moving in the direction of the ports of Big Odesa over the past week as of June 5 increased by 10.4%, to 2,663 from 2,413, and the waiting time in line, up to 6.1 days from 4.5 weeks earlier, Deputy Director of Ukrzaliznytsia commercial work department Valeriy Tkachov said.
Nine more ships with 163,800 tonnes of food stuffs left the ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk and Pivdenny on Monday as part of the implementation of the Grain Initiative, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine reported.
In the ports of Chornomorsk, Odesa and Pivdenny, 10 vessels are ready to be loaded as part of the grain initiative, more than 40 applications are expected to call at Ukrainian ports, Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov said on his Facebook page in Friday.
The first caravan of three vessels with Ukrainian grain left the ports of Big Odesa early Friday morning, Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov said.