16 violations of NSR navigation rules registered this year (photo)
From the beginning of the year, FSI Northern Sea Route Administration has submitted 16 notifications on violation of the NSR navigation rules to the Directorate for State Maritime and River Supervision of Federal Agency for Transport Supervision (Rostransnadzor) on, IAA PortNews correspondent cites Valery Poddubny, deputy head of the Directorate, as saying at the IX International Forum "Transport and Transit Potential".
“Special assignments on investigation of violations were given to our regional bodies in respect of each notification”, explained Valery Poddubny.
Among the key violations at the Northern Sea Route he mentioned the entry into the water area without a permission of NSR Administration, non-observance of navigation area or season specified in classification certificates, non-compliance with ice navigation conditions, violation of routes specified in the permissions.
Valery Poddubny reminded that the year of 2015 saw twice as much violations as compared with the number of notifications registered in 2014. “In 2015, 33 officials representing 26 shipping companies were fined. They were captains of vessels, those responsible for safe navigation and prevention of environment pollution, as well as heads of companies”, he said.