The second vessel left the port of Odesa

The second vessel blocked due to the war has left the port of Odesa and is now sailing through a temporary corridor.

On Saturday, August 26, the bulk carrier PRIMUS left the port of Odesa. This is the second vessel that departed from Ukraine after the suspension of the grain agreement.

This was announced for the first time on Saturday morning by Andriy Klymenko, the project manager at the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies, on Facebook.

On Sunday, this information was confirmed on Twitter by Oleksandr Kubrakov and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

"The 2nd vessel blocked due to the war has left the port of Odesa and is now sailing through a temporary corridor.

The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier PRIMUS of a Singaporean operator has left the port of Odesa and is sailing through the temporary corridor established for civilian vessels to/from the Black Sea ports of Ukraine. The vessel had been in the port since February 20, 2022, with steel products for African countries," Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine - Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine, wrote on Twitter.

"The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier PRIMUS of a Singaporean operator has left the port of Odesa and is sailing through the temporary corridor established for civilian vessels to/from the Black Sea ports of Ukraine. The vessel has been in the port since February 20, 2022, with steel products for African countries.

This is the second vessel which used the temporary corridor for civilian shipping.

As a reminder, the corridor established by the navigational order of the Ukrainian Navy is primarily used to evacuate vessels that were in the Ukrainian ports of Chornomorsk, Odesa and Pivdennyi at the time of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. The container ship JOSEPH SCHULTE was the first to use this route on August 16, 2023," it is stated in the message of the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine.

A little later, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted, "The second vessel reached Romanian territorial waters after successfully passing through our temporary Black Sea Corridor.

It has been locked since February 2022, loaded with steel for African consumers.

We defend freedom of navigation with real deeds, and the world benefits from stability.

Thank you to everyone who made this possible: our porters, our soldiers and everyone who defends freedom."

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