Ship From Ukraine Loaded With Grain Arrives In Turkey

A container ship loaded with grain that left Ukraine's southern port of Odesa on Wednesday has transited through the Bosporus and arrived near Marmara, Turkey, its final destination, Vasco Cotovio reported for CNN.

The Hong Kong-flagged Joseph Schulte, carrying 30,000 metric tons of cargo including food products, is the first vessel to use a temporary Black Sea shipping corridor established following the breakdown of a UN-brokered grain deal last month I Photo: BSM - Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement Hellas Facebook

The Hong Kong-flagged Joseph Schulte, carrying 30,000 metric tons of cargo including food products, is the first vessel to use a temporary Black Sea shipping corridor established following the breakdown of a UN-brokered grain deal last month, Kyiv officials said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday hailed the "functioning of the 'grain corridor,'" as the ship sailed through the Black Sea along Romanian and Bulgarian territorial waters on its passage to Turkey.

"Off we go with the first one," Zelensky wrote on Telegram. "We are preparing the next steps."

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