Africa-Press – Botswana. A first humanitarian ship chartered by the UN to transport Ukrainian grain was loaded today with 23,000 tons of wheat and is ready to go to sea, announced Ukraine’s Minister of Infrastructure.
Present at the port of Pivdenny, in the city of Yuzhne, to watch the shipment, Minister Oleksandre Koubrakov indicated that “the ship will continue to Africa, with Ethiopia being the last country where the cargo of 23,000 tons of wheat will be delivered”.
“I hope that other ships chartered for the World Food Program (WFP) will arrive at our ports. I hope there will be two or three more ships soon,” he said.
On Twitter, the minister later said that the shipment was done and that the ship would leave shortly, without giving a date.
The ship Brave Commander docked on Friday at the port of Pivdenny, near Odessa. According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Infrastructure, it will depart for Djibouti, from where the cargo will go on to Ethiopia.
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