Rainer Ingebrigtsen, head of the Kimek shipyard workers’ union in the port of Kirkines on the Norwegian border, said that no espionage equipment was found during the repair of Russian fishing boats. This is reported by the Norwegian edition. NRK.
“Rainer Ingebrigtsen repairs Russian fishing boats every day. The material has yet to find any suspicious equipment on board,” he says.
It is stated that 80 percent of the shipyard’s income comes from serving Russian trawlers.
Steals Ulriksen, former researcher at the Norwegian Naval Academy expression Confidence that Russia has exercised its right not to have a Norwegian representative on board to secretly gather information for almost a decade, including during exercises in Norwegian waters.
“During the Cold War, we had areas where foreign ships were not allowed to enter. Maybe you can do the same today, especially where there are important oil and gas facilities,” said the scientist.
It was noted that Norwegian ships did not enter the Russian port of Murmansk without Russian officials on board.
formerly Norway annoyed transit of fishing vessels from the Russian Federation to their ports.