Irkutsk Vessel Loads Over 8,000 Tons of Stolen Wheat in Mariupol Port

The loading operations took place from 28 to 31 January.

The Irkutsk vessel (IMO 9419084) has loaded over 8,000 tons of stolen wheat in the port of occupied Mariupol.

The Ukrainian Shipping Magazine published this information, as reported by the CFTS portal.

According to a journalist with the Myrotvorets Center’s SeaKrime project, the Irkutsk is heading to Alexandria (Egypt). “Exporter: Mostagro (TIN 9701208412). The loading took place in the occupied port of Mariupol from 28 to 31 January. The vessel sailed with its AIS turned off from 22 January to 8 February,” the report says.

In February 2024, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced that it suspected the ship's captain of violating the procedure for entering and exiting temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories.

The ship, formerly known as the Salvinia, is known to have transported ilmenite (the main raw material for producing titanium) from Chornomorsk to the Romanian port of Constanta. There, the sanctioned Syrian ship Souria (now known as the San Damian, IMO 9274331) picked up the raw material and delivered it to the temporarily occupied port of Feodosiia.

From 2024 to 2025, the ship transported nearly 40,000 tons of Ukrainian coking coal from the temporarily occupied Ukrainian port of Mariupol to Egypt, among others. The ship used the following scheme: an official call at the Russian port of Temryuk, deactivation of its Automatic Identification System (AIS), transit to load cargo at the port of Mariupol, return to Temryuk with the cargo, and departure to the destination port with the AIS reactivated.