Tag: Mariupol
This is the second time that the Russian occupiers have shipped this type of cargo from the port of Mariupol.
The occupiers are not releasing or returning the vessels Blue Star I and Smarta to their owners.
Mariupol port can be used to export stolen raw materials from temporarily occupied territories.
Ships of the "river-sea" class with a maximum load of 5,000 tons enter the port.
The vessels are immediately sent to a roadstead for transshipment.
Ship traffic out of the port has accelerated to about one every three days.
The occupiers painted over the name of the vessel used, although observations and traffic analysis show that it is the Mezhdurechensk vessel.
The cut-up railcars are being sent for melting.
The occupiers have stolen USD 25 million worth of hot-rolled metal coils from the Mariupol port's warehouses in one year.
The vessel's identification system was turned off near the port.
The so-called Azov Navy will be created with vessels from the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla.
According to an advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, the Russians have decided to use the port to supply weapons to the Volnovakha - Vuhledar line.
The Mezhdurechensk ship has moored at a pier, waiting for grain to be delivered for loading.
Previously, the occupiers used the seaport mostly for shipping stolen metal products.
The Russians plan to begin transshipping stolen grain and sunflower seeds through the port in May.
A river/sea vessel from Rostov-on-Don entered the port.
Russia will also use it as a military logistics hub.
Russia also plans to add the navigable section of the waterways in the Kherson region to the List of Russian inland waterways.