The raging storm in Black sea region devastated not only Russian and Ukrainian shipping, but Turkish as well. In Samsun port two cargo vessels were beached by the storm, Turkish coaster Hay K and Russian ro-ro Feruz. As far as it may be understood from Turk media news with the help of Google translator, Master of the Russian ferry Feruz impressed the onlookers with his seamanship skills, he managed to manoeuvre the vessel to the beach in most safe way. From the pics and vesseltracker.com – google earth map it may be assumed, that vessel either was in a small harbor of Mert Park, or intentionally lead the vessel in harbor in order to avoid grounding along more dangerous, open to the sea coastline. The 16 crew is safe and remains onboard, salvage and crew waiting for weather improve. See pics at www.odin.tc/news/...

The raging storm in Black sea region devastated not only Russian and Ukrainian shipping, but Turkish as well. In Samsun port two cargo vessels were beached by the storm, Turkish coaster Hay K and Russian ro-ro Feruz. The Hay K was pushed to the embankment somewhere along Samsun coastline, as seen on the pic. See pics at www.odin.tc/news/...

Taurus required assistance from Ukrainian and Russian maritime authorities, vessel is waiting for ice channeling and ran out of fuel and provision somewhere in the middle of Azov sea. Vessel is en route from Samsun to Azov, last known AIS position is dated Jan 22 2012, Kerch Strait, it means vessel is in Azov sea from Jan 23 up until now. Maritime Bulletin www.odin.tc