2023-12-30 20:27:28
The Ukrainian government has assured this Saturday that it has exported around 13 million tons of goods since the establishment in August of a maritime corridor in the Black Sea which has become very important for their trade, despite Russian threats of bombing.
These approximately “13 million tons” were transported by 400 shipsindicated the Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Koubrakov. He expressed his “gratitude” to the Ukrainian army and its international partners for ensuring the functioning of this corridor “in conditions of military aggression.”
After a difficult 2023 on the front, Ukraine can boast of successes in the Black Sea, where he defeated a Russian fleet that was reputed to be much more powerful. kyiv’s army managed to keep Russian ships away from the southwest of this sea and reopen a sea corridor to export Ukrainian grain, ignoring threats of bombing.
This corridor was created in August to connect the ports of southern Ukraine and the Bosphorus Strait, just weeks after Moscow closed the door on a grain deal between the two warring countries. This agreement had allowed almost 33 million tons of Ukrainian grain and other food products to be exported through the Black Sea in one year.
This route is all the more important since in recent months several land routes have been blocked by demonstrations by Polish truckers, dissatisfied with the competition considered “unfair” by their Ukrainian colleagues.
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