The largest container ship in the history of the North Sea Route has completed its journey
The passage was carried out by GlavSevmorput.
1 October 2024GlavSevmorput has guided the largest container ship in the history of the North Sea Route—the vessel Flying Fish 1. This is reported by B-Port.
It departed from the port of St. Petersburg bound for the Chinese port of Qingdao. The Flying Fish 1 is 294 metres long and carries 664 twenty-foot containers and 1,727 forty-foot containers (a total of 40,966 tons of cargo). The vessel crossed the boundary of the North Sea Route in the vicinity of Cape Zhelaniya and left the route's waters near Cape Dezhnev.
'Guiding large vessels with correspondingly large draughts involves sailing only on deep-water routes. The container ship's route was developed by GlavSevmorput in accordance with this requirement and the ice conditions developing and forecast at the time of passage. The container ship successfully traversed the North Sea Route in almost six days with an average speed of 15.5 knots,' said Sergey Zybko, head of GlavSevmorput.
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