The search for a mine took place in the “grain corridor”
27.10.2022 - 11:20
Dry cargoes with food could not leave the ports of Ukraine on Wednesday, October 26, due to the inspection of a mine-like object in the “grain corridor”.
“On October 26, not a single dry cargo ship with food left Ukrainian ports along the maritime humanitarian corridor,” the Joint Coordination Center (JCC) in Istanbul reported.
The SCC recalled that a tugboat and a search and rescue boat had previously been sent to the sea corridor to check a suspicious object that looked like a mine.
The information was also confirmed by the head of the Institute of Strategic Black Sea Studies Andrii Klymenko. According to him, all day yesterday the Ukrainian search and rescue vessel Sapfir and the fast rescue boat SAR 02 performed “a previously uncharacteristic function for them – searching for sea mines in the “grain corridor”.
The mine was searched due to a report from an unnamed vessel dated October 25. The crew seemed to notice a mine.
“This was done on behalf of the SCC (Joint Coordination Center of the Grain Initiative in Istanbul). Nothing was found, it seems,” added Klymenko. The fact that no mines were found was also reported in the Joint Coordination Center.
At the same time, three ships with grain, which left the port of Chornomorsk on October 26, stood on the road for a day, because the movement of ships through the “corridor” was not allowed in the SCC. Already today, October 27, shipping resumed. On behalf of the SCC, the caravan is accompanied by the Ukrainian tug “Kapitan Nezavitin”.
Currently, there are more than 170 vessels in the territorial waters of Turkey, 113 of which are registered in the SCC for inspection, and another 60 are waiting to join the initiative.
