'Joseph Schulte' container ship is arriving to Istanbul tonight - Reuters
The ship that departed from Odesa port yesterday will arrive in Istanbul tonight (Photo: facebook.com/oleksandr.kubrakov)
A spokesperson of the German company Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, which co-owns the container ship "Joseph Schulte" with a Chinese bank, has stated that the vessel, which departed from the port of Odesa through a temporary corridor yesterday, is expected to arrive in Istanbul this evening, referring to Reuters.
The ship is currently in Romanian waters.
The company also informed that the entire crew onboard was safe. The container ship left the port of Odesa using a special corridor established for civilian vessels to-from Ukrainian ports.
The first ship departs from Odesa port after "Grain deal" suspension
On Tuesday, August 16, the container ship "Joseph Schulte" departed from the port of Odesa. It became the first civilian ship to utilize the temporary transportation corridor opened after Russia's withdrawal from the "grain deal."
The corridor will primarily be used for evacuating vessels in the Ukrainian ports of Chornomorsk, Odesa, and Pivdenniy during Russia's full-scale invasion. Ukraine proposed this route in its appeal to the International Maritime Organization.
The last time a ship left the port of Odesa under the "grain deal" was on July 16.
