On December 4, the occupiers’ criminal “Minister of Transport”, Nikolai Lukashenko, made “clarifications” on the work of the criminal Kerch ferry crossing. He stated that now there are supposedly “6 ferries operating at the crossing: 2 railway ferries “Avangard” and “Conro Trader”; 2 small car ferries “Kerch-2” and “Yeysk”; 2 large car ferries – L“avrenty” and “Maria”.”
Lukashenko admitted that the ferry “Maria” “is under inspection”, which we previously wrote about, stated that “the Kerch ferry crossing operates during daylight hours” and “according to actual weather”, not working in fog and working limitedly in winds, which at a speed at 12 meters per second it supposedly stops railway ferries, at a speed of 15 meters it stops small ones, and at 17 meters per second all car ferries.
Let us recall that we previously investigated aspects of billion-dollar fraud in the criminal organization of this ferry crossing, including the activities of the illegal “federal state unitary enterprise” “Research and Design Institute of Testing Machines, Instruments and Mass Measuring Instruments”. Regarding the mentioned railway ferries under the aggressor’s flag, it is worth adding that the “Avangard”, IMO 9522403, built in 2009 in Sevastopol, is allegedly owned by the Moscow company “Yugtrans Terminal Co. Ltd.”, and the operator is the “Anship” company, with the same Moscow address.
The German “veteran” “Conro Trader” IMO 7711763, modernized in 2011 in Kherson, has a rather complicated history of beneficiaries, where after 2014 both the “TES-Terminal” structure and the Kiev company “Marine Standard” (“Morskoy Standart”), which is now urgently “liquidated” after “bankruptcy”, and the formal owner is the Belizean offshore structure “Darley Select Incorporated”.
This carrier of oil tanks, with an obviously carefully hidden owner until 2014, became famous for non-payment to its crews, and in the first months of the occupation it ran aground in the middle of the Kerch Strait. Also, “Morskoy Standart”, now registered to Inna Kovalevich, the person involved in “Peacemaker”; in March 2014 it “urgently” sued “Darley Select Incorporated” in Kiev and in 2017 it “flashed” in case 522/8514/17 for illegal export Ukrainian sailors via Crimea. It is interesting that the contact mobile number of “Marine Standard” coincides with the telephone number of the Kyiv computer and laptop repair network “Chipset” indicated in the aggressor’s search engine of the “Yandex” and therefore it is quite interesting what kind of programs and in whose interests this structure installs.
