The 'Venta Maersk' has completed the most difficult section of her voyage along the Northern Sea Route under escort by the Russian icebreaker '50 Let Pobedy'. The vessel maintained a speed of 11 knots through the East Siberian Sea and the Laptev Sea and finished that part of the voyage on Sep 11. The icebreaker, operated by Rosatom, took the 'Venta Maersk' along the shortest route through the Sannikov Strait. The 50-kilometer wide strait separates the Anzhu Islands from the Lyakhovsky Islands and connects the Laptev Sea in the west with the East Siberian Sea in the east. The 'Venta Maersk' was now continuing to St. Petersburg without escort, ETA Sep 27. The vessel left Busan on Sep 8, and her subsequent voyage from Vladivostok in Russia's south-east marks to St. Petersburg in the north-east a first for a Maersk container ship in the region. Report with photo: https://www.maritime-exec...
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13 September 2018 - 13:07
Venta Maersk completed the most difficult section of her voyage along the Northern Sea Route
The 'Venta Maersk' has completed the most difficult section of her voyage along the Northern Sea Route under escort by the Russian icebreaker '50 Let Pobedy'
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13 September 2018 - 13:07
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