The research vessel “Akademik Ioffe” on Tuesday, December 7, left Denmark and returns to Russia. Izvestia learned about this.
Earlier in the day, a court in Denmark ruled to remove the arrest from a Russian research vessel, which was detained in early November following a lawsuit filed by Canadian company One Ocean Expeditions.
The detention of “Akademik Ioffe” took place in Denmark on November 1. The seizure of the ship was carried out “as an interim measure in a third party claim related to previous activities,” as reported by the Russian embassy. At the time of the arrest, there were 38 crew members and 23 scientific workers on board.
They returned to Russia on November 24 on the ship Akademik Nikolai Strakhov.
The Canadian company One Ocean Expeditions, which specializes in cruises, rented the boat through an intermediary several years ago. It was one of three at the disposal of the organization. In 2018, she began to have financial problems, and due to the debt to the intermediary firm Akademika Ioffe, the owner seized it, which brought losses to the company.
In addition, in August 2018, the ship crashed into a rock and ran aground in the Canadian bay of Nunavut, where the seabed is poorly understood. The company believed that the Russians who controlled the ship were to blame for the incident.
One Ocean Expeditions filed a lawsuit for $ 19 million. The organization said that due to the grounded Akademik Ioffe suffered $ 6.5 million in damage, and the amount of other costs amounted to $ 12.5 million.
“Akademik Ioffe” is a 117-meter research vessel built in 1988 and named after the Soviet physicist Abram Fedorovich Ioffe. It has the status of a unique scientific installation (UNU) and is used for experiments on long-range sound propagation in the ocean.
Source: IZ
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