Sunken in the Japanese port of Niigata, the Russian cargo ship "Tanya Karpinskaya" was raised from the bottom and sent the tug to the shipyard in Kure city (Hiroshima Prefecture), where the ship will pass the scrap metal. All the related work are paid by the owner of the vessel.
The cargo ship "Tanya Karpinskaya" capsized and sank on 7 February after the collision with the container ship "Kota Duta" under the flag of Singapore. Russian cargo ship with a displacement of 2163 tons at the moment of impact shifted from one berth of the port of Niigata to another, and the Singapore container ship with a displacement 8245 tons went to sea. On Board the Russian vessel was a batch of scrap metal.
February 29, the district court Niigata ordered the captain, "Tanya Karpinskaya" Alexander Zaika, captain, "Kota Duta" citizen of Poland Ignacy Marek to pay fines in the amount of 500 thousand yen (about $6 thousand) each. They were convicted in violation of the rules of operation of vessels. Both sides have already made the fines more claims to him there.
The cargo ship "Tanya Karpinskaya" was built in 1975 in Romania. In recent years he has performed mainly cabotage traffic. Operation on its lifting began on 27 April and was completed 2 may. Currently, the authorities of the port of Niigata is prepared to remove the restrictions to navigation due to the fact that the ship is a few months lay on the bottom of the Harbor at a depth of 14 meters.
DV-ROSS