STOCKHOLM, November 4. / TASS /. The Danish authorities arrested the Russian research vessel “Akademik Ioffe” of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution of the Institute of Oceanology named after PP Shirshov of the Russian Academy of Sciences. reported Embassy of the Russian Federation in the kingdom.
It happened on November 1st. The vessel was immobilized during bunkering in the harbor of Skagen harbor, the vessel’s documents were seized. As stated in the message, the seizure of the vessel was made at the request of a third party, which is associated with the vessel’s past activities, as an interim measure.
The vessel is used by the Institute of Oceanology. PP Shirshov for scientific purposes.
The Embassy received and forwarded to the Russian Foreign Ministry copies of the court decisions on the basis of which the arrest was made. The diplomatic mission is in contact with the Danish Foreign Ministry, the embassy explains.
The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation is studying the situation of the detention of “academician Ioffe”, the press service of the department told TASS. For its part, a TASS source indicated that the detention could be linked to the incident that occurred with the R / V Akademik Ioffe in 2018. Then, the ship was chartered as a cruise by the Canadian company One Ocean Expeditions and was stranded in the Arctic Ocean.
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