Akademik Cherskiy (ship)

Akademik Cherskiy

Ship data flag  Russia other ship names Jascon 18 Ship type Pipelayer Callsign UDQB home port Kaliningrad Owner until 2020: Gazprom , STIF Shipyard Hantong Ship Machinery Equipment (Tongzhou) Co., Ltd, China Build number H028 Commissioning October 21, 2015

Ship dimensions and crew length 150.0 m ( Lüa ) width 38.5 m Draft Max. 6.8 m displacement 30,143  t measurement 29,513 GT

Machine system machine Diesel-electric drive Machine performance 6,000 kW (8,158 hp) Top speed 15 kn (28 km / h) Energy supply 8 × diesel generator Generator power 31,600 kW (42,964 hp) propeller 2 × propeller pods

Transport capacities Load capacity 11,036 dw Permitted number of passengers 385 workers

Furnishing Helipad Helideck Dynamic positioning DP 3 Ship cranes 1 × 1800 t SWL 2 × 40 t SWL

Others Classifications Maritime Register of Shipping Registration numbers IMO 8770261 RS 071282

The Akademik Cherskiy , occasionally Akademik Tscherski , is a pipe layer , which was built in 2015 on the Jiangsu Hantong Ship Heavy Industry Co Ltd. It is named after the Russian geographer and academician Ivan Dementjewitsch Tscherski .

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The Akademik Cherskiy entered service in 2015 as Jascon 18, flew under the flag of Gibraltar and was sold to Gazprom in Russia in 2016 . It is 150 m long, 38.5 m wide and measured at 29,513 GT. It left the port of Nakhodka in February 2020 and is scheduled to complete the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline after the construction freeze.

Construction freeze on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline

As part of the laying of the 1225 km long controversial gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 consisting of 2 parallel pipes, the USA threatened sanctions against Nord Stream 2 AG and the companies involved. When US President Donald Trump signed the sanctions on December 20, 2019, construction was halted.

The Swiss company Allseas , responsible for laying the pipeline, withdrew its laying ships after the construction freeze. The Pioneering Spirit arrived in Kristiansand, Norway, on December 26, 2019 and the Solitaire has been anchored in the roadstead of the Danish port of Nyborg since December 25, 2019 . The missing 160 km are now to be relocated by Akademik Cherskiy and Fortuna .

Apparently in order to remove the Gazprom group from access through US sanctions, the Akademik Cherskiy was transferred to the Russian corporation STIF in 2020.

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  Pipelayer Solitaire

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  Pipelayer Pioneering Spirit

Web links

• Data and pictures of the pipe fitter , accessed on December 26, 2019
• Russia wants to complete Nord Stream 2 itself (FAZ December 27, 2019, page 20, based on a Reuters report)
• further information and pictures , accessed on February 9, 2020
• zeit.de August 11, 2020: The mayor and the ghost ship (report)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Beutelsbacher: "A ship off Rügen stirs America's anger against breakaway Europe" Welt.de of June 19, 2020