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18-03-2016, 16:00
Diesel-electric ship "Vasiliy Golovnin" completed the work within the project of the Ministry of Defense of Argentina
Diesel-electric ship "Vasiliy Golovnin" completed the work within the project of the Ministry of Defense of Argentina of Defense, and send goods to the research stations in Antarctica.
Port of Registry is Vladivostok, the customer is Buenos Aires. In Antarctica, the Russian diesel-electric ship "Vasiliy Golovnin" conducted an operation to supply the Argentine polar station with necessary goods for work. The route of the FESCO vessel includes eleven research stations.
Russian sailors worked in Antarctica for over a month. For 8500 tons of goods were delivered to the polar stations: food, fuel, scientific equipment. After this expedition "Basil Golovnin" will go to the next expedition to the western part of the Arctic.
Iksan Yusupov, captain diesel-electric ship"Basil Golovnin": "We have been working more than eight years. The speed of work is very high! We have to work for 24 hours. This year we had to work in difficult weather conditions. Wind was very strong. And the ice is gone already. So we value every day. We can not be relax! We are also working closely with Argentines. While it turns out".
In Antarctica it very difficult to find ports, easy to stop, not easy to approach the coast. Cargo transported by two helicopters and self-propelled barges. It works even when others assured: this is not possible!
Maxim scarlet, head of the freight department of PJSC FESCO: "What we can do in Russia, so it is to work in extreme conditions! Where there are no instructions! When it seems that this is impossible! And our guys are doing. For example, the Argentine pilots sometimes can not go out! But we can."
We take care not only about people, but also about the environment. In Antarctica is prohibited to utilize the waste, so "Basil Golovnin" brought hundreds of tons of debris that has accumulated at polar stations.
News source: ":" [ www.vestiprim.ru ]
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