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Akademik Cherksky is expected to arrive at the Kaliningrad port on October 7, Russian news agency Interfax reports.
According to her, two supply ships have been moored in the port of Kaliningrad: Ivan Sidorenko and Ostap Sheremeta, which the enclave leadership of the Russian military contingent for the Baltic Sea calls the participants of the completion of the Nord Stream 2 project.
Gazprom directed the special purpose ship Akademik Čerskij from the Far East through the coasts of Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar and the eastern Atlantic to the Baltic Sea in March this year. Since then, it has been in the port of Mukran or its approaches. Fortuna, a barge carrying Fortuna pipes, left the German port last month.
Gazprom, the sole beneficial owner of the company developing the Nord Stream 2 project, acquired the multipurpose construction vessel, formerly known as Jascon 18, in 2015 and significantly improved it last year.
10 billion The € 50,000 Nord Stream 2 project is stuck at 94% amid an extension of US sanctions. implementation.
December 20, 2019 Following the announcement of sanctions on Nord Stream 2 by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, construction of the pipeline on three special vessels by Swiss Allseas was immediately stopped.
Reuters / Photo by Scanpix / Nord Stream 2 pipeline under construction
Washington’s current sanctions target ships that are directly involved in laying subsea pipelines. The new sanctions, passed by both houses of the United States Congress, target boat insurers and service companies that perform geodetic, trenching, welding and other work. The sanctions would also be directed at companies that test and certify pipelines, that is, those that do not allow the pipelines to come into operation.
At the end of last month, the Group of Mutual Insurance Clubs of International Shipowners (IGP & I) recommended that its members “exercise the utmost prudence” when insuring vessels participating in the Nord Stream 2 project.
55 billion cubic meters per year Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany is being installed alongside the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which has been in operation for more than eight years and has the same capacity.
Gazprom’s partners in the Nord Stream 2 project – Wintershall from Germany and Uniper, OMV from Austria, Engie from France, Dutch Shell from Great Britain and the Netherlands – are co-financiers and future beneficiaries.
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