A Russian
16,000-tonne ship known as the Kuzma Minin has run aground off the coast of
Britain’s Cornwall County as the area was being pounded by stormy weather.
MOSCOW, December 18.
/TASS/. A Russian 16,000-tonne ship known as the Kuzma Minin has run aground
off the coast of Britain’s Cornwall County as the area was being pounded by
stormy weather, the Daily Mirror wrote on Tuesday.
According to the newspaper,
the bulk carrier is "dangerously close" to a nearby beach.
The ship, which has
18 Russian crew, had set off from Terneuzen, a port in the Netherlands, where
it was earlier arrested due to its owner’s debts. The Maritime and Coastguard
Agency plans to refloat the bulk carrier.
The Kuzma Minin
operated by the Murmansk Shipping Company had stayed in the port of Terneuzen
for several months. Sergei Fishov, a coordinator for the International
Transport Workers’ Federation, said in October that the shipowner’s debt
exceeded 2.2 mln euro.
Source: ITAR-TASS
18-12-2018
