The director of internal trade and consumer protection in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus Abdul Wahhab al-Safar announced the arrival of two ships carrying wheat to the ports of Latakia and Tartus in western Syria. These ships delivered Ukrainian wheat under contracts signed by the Syrian Grain Authority. The port of Latakia received 16,000 tons, and the port of Tartus received 21,500 tons of wheat.

The main purpose of these import deliveries is to replenish strategic wheat reserves in Syria and ensure uninterrupted supply of flour to state and private bakeries throughout the country.

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