The Turkish Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday that the first grain shipment to leave a Ukrainian port since the start of the Russian invasion will arrive in Istanbul " on Tuesday “after midnight."
The Razzoni vessel was scheduled to arrive Tuesday afternoon. It is raising the Sierra Leone flag and has departed the port of Odessa on Monday at around nine a.m. (6 a.m. GMT), carrying 26 thousand tons of corn toward the port of Tripoli in northern Lebanon.
According to the Turkish Ministry of Defense, it is due to reach “on Tuesday after midnight," that is around 21:00 GMT in Istanbul.