The first container ship using a temporary Black Sea shipping corridor opened since Russia pulled out of a UN-brokered grain exports deal last month, has left Ukraine's southern port of Odesa on Wednesday.
Ukraine's Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said in a Faecbook post that Hong Kong-flagged ship Joseph Schulte, with more than 30,000 metric tons of cargo on board, was bound for Bosporus Strait, an internationally significant waterway located in Istanbul in northwestern Turkey that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara.
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