The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Primus of a Singaporean operator has left the port of Odesa and is sailing through the temporary corridor established for civilian vessels to/from the Black Sea ports of Ukraine. The vessel has been in the port since February 20, 2022, with steel products for African countries.
This is the second vessel which used the temporary corridor for civilian shipping.
The destination was the Bulgarian port of Varna. In the evening of August 27, the ship entered the territorial waters of Romania.
As of 8:00 a.m. on August 28, according to data from ship traffic research services, the bulk carrier was already much south of the port of Varna. The destination is already listed as Dakar, where the bulk carrier is expected to arrive on September 16.
If you believe the Marinetraffic data, after leaving the Ukrainian waters, the vessel moved south outside the territorial waters of Romania and Bulgaria.
As a reminder, the corridor established by the navigational order of the Ukrainian Navy is primarily used to evacuate vessels that were in the Ukrainian ports of Chornomorsk, Odesa and Pivdennyi at the time of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. The container ship JOSEPH SCHULTE was the first to use this route on August 16, 2023.
