KYIV, Aug 8 – The opportunity to use all three seaports of Odesa within the framework of the Istanbul Grain Initiative will help increase transshipment volumes to three or five vessels a day within two weeks, Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov has said.

"Our goal is to increase transshipment in ports. Within two weeks we plan to reach the transshipment volume of three or five vessels per day," the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) quoted him as saying in connection with the departure of the first vessel from the port of Pivdenny – Sacura with 11,000 tonnes of soybeans for Italy on Monday.