“After April 16, 2022 It is prohibited to allow any ship registered under the Russian flag to enter ports located on the territory of the Union.”. This is the decision adopted by the Council of Europe, embodied in regulation 2022/576, where Brussels takes another step towards screwing the community market into Russian capital. It did so on the last day of February after closing access to its airspace and multiple takeovers. mega yachts and the mansions of oligarchs related to Vladimir Putin.
However There was a very special situation in the Galician fleet: two ships belonging to Vigo and flying the Russian flag – registered in Murmansk – were left in limbo.. About Severnaya Zemlya Y Novaya Zemlya (Northern Land and New Land), from Pesquera Vaqueiro, affiliated with the Vigo Shipowners’ Cooperative (ARVI). An exception to the regulation would allow them to continue operating as before in Galician ports.
In fact, the latter docked at the Frigoríficos del Morrazo dock in Cangas this Sunday. The Ministry of Development, which is responsible for setting guidelines for both the Sea Master and port authorities, has sent out instructions to verify the entry of ships such as Vaqueiro’s as an exception. “Ships that are jointly included in the general scope of application of the Solas, Marpol and Cargo Lines Conventions shall therefore not affect either fishing vessels or vessels nor gross tonnage cargo ships (GT) less than 500”.
In the decision itself adopted by the Community Executive Board Exceptions were included and included ships such as merchant ships loaded with strategic raw materials (natural gas, oil, copper, nickel or palladium), ships carrying sensitive goods (pharmaceuticals, agricultural, fertilizers) or humanitarian purposes.. All ships at risk due to an emergency have always had the right of free passage to European ports.
Fishing boats, although the Cyrillic names on the hull can be misleading Severnaya Zemlya Y Novaya Zemlya Old acquaintances of Galician fishing. It was built twenty years ago in Armón Vigo and Astilleros Gondán. Arneles Beach Y harnesses, respectively, were exported and renamed in 2007. They are operated by the Zakharov Vaqueiro company, located in the port city of Murmansk.
After closing its airspace to planes, it was the Spanish government that urged Brussels to take the same decision, one that Downing Street had taken for British waters. At the time, it did not clarify what would happen to the Pesquera Vaqueiro ships, as FARO DE VIGO, a newspaper belonging to the same group as this media, reported.
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Vigo is one of the reference ports for scales. big pleasure boats. aspect Sailing Yacht Ais a $500 million science fiction yacht owned by energy and fertilizer tycoon Andrey Melnichenko. It is now held in Trieste (Italy). It was also visited by MoonIt’s 115 meters long and Roman Abramovich sold it for about $400 million.
also in Spanish territory Tango, the yacht of billionaire aluminum businessman Viktor Vekselberg, a personal friend of Vladimir Putin. The latter was captured by the Civil Guard in a joint operation with US agencies FBI and HSI (Homeland Security Investigations). However has been many boats Number of oligarchs blocked across Europe. England took over fiworth about 50 million dollars and do the same axiomin this case in Gibraltar. crescent -unknown owner-, valerie (by Sergei Chemezov), firewood (Gennady Timchenko) or love vero (Igor Seçin) was also caught.
Source: Informacion
