Three more ships with exports left Ukraine's Black Sea ports on Wednesday, a monitoring group said, bringing the number of vessels to leave Ukraine under a U.N.-brokered grain export deal to 24.
The Joint Coordination Centre (JCC), which also inspects vessels under the deal, said Sara, carrying 8,000 tonnes of corn, and Efe, carrying 7,250 tonnes of sunflower oil, both left Odesa port and were bound for Turkey.
Petrel S, which was loaded with 18,500 tonnes of sunflower meal, left the Chornomorsk port and was headed to Amsterdam, the Istanbul-based JCC said, adding that it had inspected four inbound ships on Wednesday.
Ukraine also expected five ships at its Chornomorsk port on Wednesday, the largest convoy to arrive in Ukrainian ports in a day so far since exports began on Aug. 1.
The Brave Commander, the ship carrying the first cargo of food aid bound for Africa under the deal, transited Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait on Wednesday evening, Refinitiv Eikon data showed.
The JCC said the Brave Commander and three other ships would be inspected on Thursday before they are approved to continue to their final destinations.
