The Russians detained in Denmark have been transferred to another ship and are sent to Kaliningrad another ship and heading to Kaliningrad. Information about this was published in the official Telegram channel of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia.
“All members of the scientific expedition were transferred from the research vessel” Akademik Ioffe “to the board of” Akademik Nikolai Strakhov “and are sent to the port of Kaliningrad “, – it was said in the message.
The arrest of the Russian ship” Akademik Ioffe “became known in the afternoon of November 4. Onboard there were 38 crew members and 23 researchers. The lawsuit, on the basis of which the ship was detained, was filed by the Canadian company One Ocean Expeditions Ltd. According to some reports, we are talking about a debt to the charterer.
“Academic Ioffe” belongs to the Institute of Oceanology. P.P. Shirshov of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The ship is named after the Soviet scientist physicist Abram Fedorovich Ioffe. It was built in 1988. Among other things, it was used for experiments on long-range sound propagation in the ocean.