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Damaged Russian vessel seeks berth in northern Europe

Поврежденное судно из РФ ищет причал на севере Европы

The 183-metre vessel carrying explosive cargo ran aground after loading in Kandalaksha in late August. Since then, the crew has been unable to find a port for repairs, having been turned down by Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Damaged cargo ship (illustrative photo). A damaged cargo ship (illustrative photo). Photo: Toby Melville

The 183-metre vessel carrying explosive cargo ran aground after loading in Kandalaksha in late August. Since then, the crew has been unable to find a port for repairs, having been turned down by Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

Northern European ports are refusing to accept the damaged General Cargo Ruby, a ship carrying ammonium nitrate from Russia under the Maltese flag.

A cargo ship loaded with explosive chemical fertilizers, towed in the Baltic Sea, was spotted by German services in German territorial waters on the evening of September 20, the AFP agency wrote on Saturday, September 21, citing a representative of the federal police department in Bad Bramstedt.

According to the federal police, ports in Norway, Denmark and Sweden refused to accept the damaged ship.

At the same time, according to ship tracking websites, Ruby was supposed to arrive in Klaipeda, Lithuania, on Monday.

At the end of August, it left the port of Kandalaksha in the Murmansk region, according to the German portal Tagesschau, part of the media company ARD, and the Norwegian newspaper The Barents Observer.

The vessel ran aground shortly after loading.

According to media reports, the 183-meter vessel is carrying 20,000 tons of explosive ammonium nitrate, the substance that caused a devastating explosion in the port of Beirut in 2020.

Just a few hours after loading, the ship ran aground, Tagesschau reports, citing a report from Norwegian authorities on the incident, which is available to the ARD studio in Stockholm.

Damage to the vessel was reported in Norway.

"The shipping company told us that the ship's hull and propeller were damaged and some water had entered," said Dag Inge Aarhus, a spokesman for the Norwegian Shipping Authority.

The bulk carrier was not allowed to remain in the port of Tromsø in northern Norway and continued on its way, Tagesschau further reports.

According to Aarhus, the decision is related to the danger to the city.

"The ship needs to be repaired, but this is impossible in such close proximity to the city. The cargo is not dangerous as long as it is just lying there. But external influences, such as work on the ship (…) can pose quite a risk," he explained.

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