RUSSIAN state-owned port authority Rosmorport has chartered, the short-sea 8,831-ton Sparta to serve cargo needs of Ust-Luga west of St Petersburg and Moscow’s isolated Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad some 600 nautical miles south.
To further boost cargo service, Rosmorport has also chartered a multipurpose vessel Sparta II, which is currently heading from the Black Sea Port of Novorossiysk to Kaliningrad, reported St Petersburg PortNews.
The Sparta multifunctional vessel has started operating on the Seaport of Ust-Luga – Seaport of Kaliningrad line, which involves moving close to Finnish, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian waters in times of high diplomatic tension.
On October 16, 2022, Sparta vessel left the seaport of Ust-Luga for its first cargo voyage under the operational management of the enterprise, taking on board 119 units of containers, 15 units of rolling equipment and 458.9 tons of general cargo for delivery to the seaport of Kaliningrad.
