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Tanker grouded in Suez Canal
On Feb 13, 2018, at 4.30 p.m. the "Zaliv Amurskiy" ran aground at kilometer mark 41 during the transit of the Suez Canal. Six vessels in the northbound convoy had to wait about a day to move on. The grounding was caused by a failure of the steering gear. The vessel was the 19th ship in the northbound convoy, which consisted of 25 vessels. A tug refloated the ship in the afternoon of 'Feb 14 and towed it to Port Said. Then the convoys could resume sailing in the northbound direction again. The accident did not affect traffic in the southbound direction. There were no reports of damage to the ship.
PRISCO’s tanker Zaliv Amurskiy completes her first Arctic voyage
Zaliv Amurskiy, tanker of Primorsk Shipping Corporation (PRISCO), completed her first Arctic voyage on October 22, 2013. The vessel arrived at Antwerp for unloading of diesel fuel delivered via the Northern Sea Route, PRISCO press center says. This tanker was the first vessel of PRISCO to use ECDIS instead of conventional navigational charts. The company’s Zaliv Baikal tanker assisted by nuclear icebreaker Taimyr is currently sailing along the Sannikov Strait. Upon completion of the voyage, she will be the second (after Zaliv Amurskiy) vessel of PRISCO to shift to ECDIS.
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