{"id":104477,"date":"2021-07-09T09:48:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T08:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/?p=104477"},"modified":"2021-09-20T14:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:56:40","slug":"la-fin-de-vie-du-tanker-russe-aura-lieu-a-brest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/la-fin-de-vie-du-tanker-russe-aura-lieu-a-brest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian tanker will be scrapped in Brest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Russian tanker Varzuga<\/em> left Murmansk in tow of the Christos XXIV<\/em> for a shipbreaking yard in Aliaga, Turkey, on April 17, 2021. She should finally arrive in Brest on the evening of Saturday, July 10, in tow of the VB Gascogne<\/em>. The operation is being monitored by the Channel and North Sea Prefecture. It recommended the towing to be carried out during a favourable weather window with wave heights of less than one metre.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Departure of the Varzuga<\/em>, Le Havre on July 8, 2021, 4 pm \u00a9 O. Malassis \/Robin des Bois<\/p>\n

On May 3, off Cherbourg, the Christos XXIV<\/em> had lost control of the Varzuga<\/em>, the tow rope between the tug and the towed vessel had broken due to the sea conditions and the wind gusts. The Varzuga<\/em>‘s drift through the world’s most congested sea lane after the Strait of Malacca represented a major hazard.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the salvage tug Abeille Libert\u00e9<\/em>, the Varzuga<\/em> was brought under control and docked in the port of Le Havre on May 7. The Inter-Regional Direction of Eastern Channel-North Sea found that the Christos XXIV<\/em> was undersized to tow the Varzuga<\/em> to Aliaga and that the Russian owner had not taken all the necessary precautions to ensure the safety of the Varzuga<\/em> during the transoceanic journey.<\/p>\n

The sometimes tense relations between the French authority and the Russian “shipowner” finally resulted in a reasonable compromise. The Varzuga<\/em> will be scrapped in Brest by the EU-approved shipyard Navaleo.<\/p>\n

Long-distance towing of end-of-life ships to Turkish or Asian yards often ends in shipwrecks or grounding of ghost ships lost on the way.<\/p>\n

The case of the Varzuga<\/em> will contribute to reverse this trend. Like all waste, end-of-life ships to be recycled must benefit from the criterion of proximity. Russian and north-European shipowners now dispose of EU-approved local breaking yards where working conditions and management of asbestos, hydrocarbons and other hazardous substances are better than in Turkish and Asian yards.<\/p>\n

The Russian tanker has long supplied fuel oil to Russian military bases in the Barents and Kara Seas. As a precautionary measure, a radiological diagnosis will be carried out in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

The Varzuga<\/em> will be bursthed in the French Brest harbour until her scrapping on dry dock at the beginning of next year.<\/p>\n

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See also :
\n<\/strong>Press release and report What future for the Christos XXIV<\/em> and the Varzuga<\/em> ?,<\/a> May 31, 2021<\/p>\n

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Only in French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-demolition-des-navires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}