2023-05-10 14:56:01
Four tugs from a subsidiary of Maersk have been seized by Russian authorities in the Russian Far East, the Danish shipping giant said on Wednesday, after announcing its full withdrawal from Russia shortly after the invasion of Ukraine .
“On April 25, we were informed that a local court had ordered that the tugs could not leave Russia and that it had also transferred custody of the tugs to a third party,” Maersk said in a statement provided to the press. AFP.
These four boats, owned by Svitzer, a subsidiary of the Danish flagship, operated under a contract around Sakhalin-2, an oil and gas project off the island in the Russian Far East.
The efforts made to sell this activity had succeeded in mid-April, but the port authorities had opposed this withdrawal by summoning the teams to continue to operate the tugs before confiscating them, according to Maersk.
“Since then, all Svitzer employees in Russia have resigned and Svitzer no longer operates the four tugs,” Maersk said, calling the situation “untenable.”
In June, the Kremlin passed control of the oil and gas project, where Japan retains shares, to a Russian company.
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