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Some of the courts have been over two decades. Their use can lead to catastrophi...

To bypass the sanctions of the Russian Federation uses tankers that have come time to hand over scrap - Bloomberg

Some of the courts have been over two decades. Their use can lead to catastrophic consequences, as it happened in 2002, when the prestige tanker broke into two parts off the coast of Northern Spain. Having lost its European markets, Russia is now forced to supply its oil at much larger distances - to India and China. To bypass the price restrictions on its exports introduced by the G7 countries, the Russian Federation uses a huge fleet of old ships. Bloomberg writes about it.

"Since many of these courts have already turned 20, the previous owners hoped to sell them for scrap," the newspaper said. It is reported that they were transferred to new, affiliated companies with the Russian Federation, which continue to use them.

"Continuous blows and bends that are subject to the corps will inevitably weaken ships and can lead to catastrophic consequences, as it happened when the Tanker" Prestige "broke into two parts off the coast of Northern Spain in 2002," the material reads.

We will remind, on April 13 Dmitry Stoyanov, Deputy CEO of the Central Scientific Research Institute "Course" said that in Russia are currently in the construction stage of more than 300 vessels, but they cannot be completed in connection with the effect of sanctions. At the end of December 2022, the Star plant was burning in St. Petersburg, which makes engines for the Fleet of the Russian Federation. The fire covered 200 meters of square area of ​​the enterprise.