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Repairs in Tuzla underway
After the 'Inzhener Trubin' arrived at Tuzla and entered the shipyard on Jan 9, a detailed damage survey was carried out by the class surveyor along with owner's superintendent and shipyard engineers. Subsequently, permanent repair works were commenced by the shore based technical teams as per the class surveyor's recommendations. The ship remained stationary as of Feb 16.
Disabled ship under tow to Tuzla
The 'Inzhener Trubin', en route from Ekonomiya to Istanbul, suffered an engine failure south of Bozcaada Island in pos. 39 38 00 N, 25 42 30 E on Jan 4, 2023. As repairs could not carried out by the crew, the tug 'Ocean Ergun' (IMO: 7222102) was appointed to provide assistance. The towage to a Tuzla shipyard commenced on Jan 8 with an ETA at Tuzla as of Jan 10.
Convoy heading for Barents Sea after months in ice
In Dec 2021 the ice breaker 'Arktika' sailed into the thick sea-ice of the Laptev Sea, and from there several thousand kilometres further east through the East Siberian Sea to the town of Pevek. It was the first voyage to east Arctic waters for the new icebreaker. On its tail the vessel had three ships, the 'Polar King', Inzhener Rubin' and the diesel-powered icebreaker 'Dikson'. In Pevek, the cargo ships unloaded their cargo, most of it construction materials to the Baymskaya copper mining project, whereupon they froze into the sea-ice of the local port. They remained captured until Feb 9, 2022, when the 'Arktika' arrived and started a several thousand kilometre long escort operation across the Northern Sea Route as a basis for the further planning of year-round convoys on the Northern Sea Route. On Feb 15, the convoy was slowly approaching the Vilkitsky Stait that separate the Laptev Sea and the Kara Sea. In addition to the 'Arktika' and the two cargo ships, the convoy included also nuclear- powered container ship 'Sevmorput', which in Nov 2021 had sailed the Russian Arctic route loaded with equipment and metal structures for the nuclear power plant currently under construction in Bangladesh and started its return towards Murmansk from Vladivostok on Jan 17, and the diesel-engined icebreaker 'Kapitan Dranitsyn'. The thickness of the sea-ice in many places exceed two meters. The convoy is expected to make it into the Barents Sea in late February.
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