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> Would you want to be a captain of an EU registered ship stuck in Russia for an indeterminate amount of time with limited ability to pay for (sanctions) repair
by chipdart 2y ago
> Would you want to be a captain of an EU registered ship stuck in Russia for an indeterminate amount of time with limited ability to pay for (sanctions) repairs of an uncertain nature?
Your hypothesis is quickly rejected/proven to be bullshit by the fact that the travel distance that the ship took after being rejected by Norway was greater than the distance it would need to take to get to a Russian port.
And instead the ship planted itself where? Right in the middle of the English channel? We're talking about hitting ports from Norway, Lithuania, and now UK/France/Belgium?
- wood_spirit 2y agoSo the ship is legitimately damaged in a grounding in a storm. The ship goes to nearest port for repairs. But when the nature of the cargo is understood, it is asked to leave. It chooses to head south to Russia via the Baltic instead of north into the artic. A reasonable safer course. Then Denmark denies it passage through the straights into the Baltic, so it now has to either head north again or carry on. It arranges to get to Malta, a place that makes its business in ship repairs. Seems reasonable actually.
- alibarber 2y agoI'm not arguing against physical geography - I'm stating that it might in the current political climate be a lot easier to get a European flagged ship repaired somewhere in (political) Europe as opposed to Russia.
- grues-dinner 2y agoI assume the Murmansk ports told them they won't get back in (after all no other port will, why would they?) What do you think they should do, camp in international waters outside Murmansk in a dead-end of the Arctic, hoping a Russian port authority relents, until winter comes in full force and they're ultrafucked rather than just a bit fucked? Have you looked at a map?