“The following vessels left: Petrel from Chernomorsk with a cargo of 18,500 tons of sunflower meal with a destination of Amsterdam in the Netherlands,” TASS said.

Two ships from Odessa with corn and sunflower oil on board arrived in Turkey.

On August 12, the SKC in Istanbul allowed two more ships with corn and wheat, carrying a total of 63,200 tons of grain, to leave Ukrainian ports.

Earlier, Frederick Jay Kenney, the UN temporary representative to the RCC, said that the center is considering ways to reduce the time it takes to inspect ships with food from Ukrainian ports.