"No more deadlocks, we're throwing distant a Russian ship". Khatanga will be scrapped after 8 years

polsatnews.pl 3 weeks ago

Russian tanker Khatanga will leave Gdynia port after 8 years. "We broke the long-term legal deadlock and prepared a unit to tow. 'Khatanga' just left the Polish port. For good" - wrote Minister of Infrastructure Dariusz Klimczak on social media.

The Russian tanker has been reported to have been removed Dariusz Klimczak during a peculiar press conference in Gdynia. Khatanga has docked in this port since 2017. At that time the port lost almost PLN 14 million.

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Minister of Infrastructure assured that the Board of Maritime Port in Gdynia has obtained the essential authorisations and he followed all the procedures. The ship will be towed to Denmark, where its scrapping.

Russian ship leaves Polish port after 8 years

"No more deadlock, We're throwing distant a Russian ship. 'Khatanga' from the Port of Gdynia' - wrote Klimczak on social media. "We broke the long-term legal deadlock and prepared a unit to tow. 'Khatanga' just left the Polish port. For good," he continued.

In the entry, the Minister stressed that "the cooperation of many institutions solved a problem that threatened the safety of shipping and the environment".

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During the event the deputy chief of the department Arkadiusz Marchewka was besides present - "we remove Russian scrap metallic from Poland" - he wrote on platform X. During the press conference, he besides said that a Russian tanker, docking at the wharf, endangered the safety of shipping and "No 1 paid for it.".

Khatanga's going to scrap. He spent 8 years in Poland

The tanker is approx. 150 meters long, 26 meters wide and weighs above 15 000 tonnes. It was utilized to transport oil and its derivatives.

Since 2017 docked in Port Gdyniawhere he was detained erstwhile did not pass the method inspection. The ship was expected to undergo repairs and sail away, but it never happened.

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In 2020, the shipowner of the unit - Murmansk Shipping Company - declared bankruptcyKhatanga remained in port. Over the years the method condition of the ship has deteriorated.

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