Shipping will be blocked at the site of the Russian tanker accident in the Kerch Strait
22.01.2025 - 14:46
The water area at the site of the “Volgoneft-212” tanker sinking will be closed to shipping more than a month after the accident.
The Russians decided to close the Kerch Strait water area at the site of the tanker accident on December 15. This decision was announced 38 days after the incident by the Operations Headquarters of the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation.
The “Volgoneft-212” tanker sank 11 kilometers from the coast. Its stern is at a depth of 20 meters. This place is now marked with a special buoy.
“Special signs will be installed on the water in the near future. Yellow cones and a special figure — a top cross — will indicate that this section of the water area is closed to the passage of vessels over it,” Russian officials say.
Recall that on December 15, two Russian tankers were sinking in the Kerch Strait. The tanker “Volgoneft-212”, carrying 4 tons of oil, was first to crash. An hour later, the storm hit the Volgoneft-239.
Over the past six months, “Volgoneft-212” and “Volgoneft-239” had been delivering fuel oil and export fuel oil from the Rosneft refinery to the port of Kavkaz.
The cause of the crash was a strong storm. One of the tankers was almost cut in half by the waves. As a result of the crash, 4,300 tons of fuel oil and other petroleum products spilled into the sea.
As it turned out later, the fuel oil that spilled into the Black Sea as a result of the Russian tanker crash was intended for the Firn, a ship of the “shadow fleet.”
