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I don't entirely follow the logic of the trip (but I know nothing about shipping). Tromso on the Norwegian Sea, then Klaipeda on the Baltic, now off the shore of Kent? That's very roundabout.

It's easy to come up with explanations involving bad will. There must be some legit ones too. What are they trying to achieve? Did they buy some ammonium nitrate and are trying to offload it for a buyer, but successive ports are saying no? Surely whoever paid and loaded the cargo needed some idea of where and how they will offload it.



I agree also that news report are missing to report on what is the most interesting part to understand the problem:

What was intended with this shipment in the first place? who is responsible for it? Regarding current international sanction, what was this ship doing loading or unloading in Russia and then going to any cost in Europe.

Also, wouldn't it possible to unload it by smaller units with smaller boats why at the see?


That ship is only 183m long. If it was in an emergency, there were plenty of ports near Tromsø that can handle that. Even Murmansk isn't far away.

Marine Traffic says it's under way to Malta.


> That's very roundabout.

Perhaps due to poor weather conditions in the past 14 days, especially given it has a cracked hull.


Again, I'm ignorant about seafaring, but isn't bad weather a reason to avoid long trips?


Bad weather is a reason to avoid bad weather. On the scale of a long voyage, weather is "local" and can be avoided either by picking a different route, or a different time (potentially hiding in a man-made or natural harbor where the ship is less exposed to the waves and weather due to the surrounding terrain).


The vessel is looking for a port to berth in but keeps being turned away.


Yeah I was thinking the same. Must have passed the Sont bridge (connecting Malmö to Kopenhagen) twice.

Might have been a way of implying: whatever threats Ukraine may put on the Kerch bridge... well we obviously have means to retaliate "the west".


no, Denmark did not allow it access to the Baltics


But then hoe did it get to Klaipeda on the Baltic?

Or did it not?

I don't understand


I think it got rejected from there too.

Based on this it only applied for permit there:

https://www.maritimeoptima.com/maritime-news/troubled-ship-h...

Then the PM announced that "no".

https://www.maritimeoptima.com/maritime-news/potentially-exp...

See also "Ruby has previously been turned away by Norway, Sweden and Lithuania, as well as facing restrictions imposed by Denmark while crossing the Baltic Sea, because of her dangerous cargo." from this page:

https://www.maritimeoptima.com/maritime-news/on-the-road-aga...

And based on this (see "last port calls" section):

https://maritimeoptima.com/public/vessels/pages/imo:9626390/...

it went straight from Tromso to Tilbury


Of course, duh! You don't need to sail to the Baltic in order to be refused, there is this novelty called "radio" these days.

In my imagination there's this ship going from harbour to harbour only to be sent away. The thought of asking first never came into my mind.


Yeah, I had the same mental image. Ship limping to the habor, then flag dance or something, then sad ship noises. :)




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