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At this time, the pipe laying vessel “Fortuna”, as well as the supply vessels “Katun” and the “Investigator of the Baltic” are on the job site in the Baltic Sea.
Nord Stream-2 Press Service
On Friday, December 11, Russian pipe laying vessels began to resume construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in Baltic Sea. Is informed by German wave.
Data ofsaya global tracking seax boats MarinaTraffic.com indicate arrival on Friday afternoon at the place pipeline construction bargesand “Fortune.”
Alongside him are the Russian supply ships “Katun” and “Baltic Researcher”.
INIn the afternoon, an official representative of the project operator Nord Stream 2 AG confirmed to the German news agency dpa that work had resumed.
Job in a section of 2.6 kilometers,s to completes until the end of December. In this area, the sea is only 30 meters deep.
SINCEudno-pipelayer “Fortuna” changed ownership in October of this year. his the new owner was a previously unknown limited liability company. This maneuver was seen as an attempt to remove the former owner of the ship Mezhregiontruboprovodstroy (MRTS) from the blow of US sanctions.
Note that in December 2019, the United States imposed sanctions on Nord Stream 2 pipelayers. As a result, the Swiss-Dutch company Allseas stopped working on the road.
On July 24, 2020, it was reported that the United States Senate approved a defense budget bill with sanctions against the Russian Federation.
On October 20, the United States announced that it would extend sanctions to companies that provide services to vessels laying the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
After Western ships refused to participate in the project due to the threat of sanctions, Russia decided to use its own pipe-laying ships.
Recently it became known that the State Chancellery of the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania found tactic to circumvent US sanctions to complete Nord Stream 2.
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