Explosive mines among risks slowing efforts to export grains out of Ukraine
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Shipping companies are not rushing to export millions of tons of trapped grain out of Ukraine, despite a breakthrough deal to provide safe corridors through the Black Sea. That is because explosive mines are drifting in the waters, ship owners are assessing the risks and many still have questions over how the deal will unfold.
The goal over the next four months is to get some 20 million tons of grain out of three Ukrainian sea ports blocked since Russia's Feb. 24 invasion. That provides time for about four to five large bulk carriers per day to transport grain from the ports to millions of impoverished people worldwide who are facing hunger.
A Joint Coordination Center (JCC) was inaugurated in Istanbul on Wednesday as part of the effort to get grain exports moving under the terms of the deal, CBS News' U.N. correspondent Pamela Falk reported.
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