KYIV, Aug 17 - The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) expects a convoy of five vessels to enter the Chornomorsk maritime merchandise port (Odesa region) on Wednesday to load more than 70,000 tonnes of wheat, bran, sunflower oil and corn, USPA reported on its Facebook page.

"Our main goal is to increase the effectiveness of the grain corridor to enter the ports. Today we expect five ships to call at the port of Chornomorsk. This is the highest figure during the operation of the grain corridor. We need to keep up such pace to reach the monthly volume of transshipment is more than 3 million tonnes with an intensity of about 100 ships per month," Head of the USPA Oleksiy Vostrikov said.