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Engine trouble off Karlskrona
The 'Mikhail Dudin', which left the Russian Port St. Petersburg on Sep 23, 2025, en route to Dunkirk, suffered engine problems off the coast of Karlskrona on the night of Sep 27, 2025. The ship moved uncontrollably and drifted north, before it dropped anchor in pos. 55° 52' N 015° 12' E off Blekinge. The time the crew indicated for repairs has been moved forward a number of times. The Swedish Navy has been and looked at the ship on a number of occasions and also spoken to the crew in connection with the international situation and the number of incidents linked to critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea. The ship was located in international waters close to Swedish waters. The Navy cooperates with the Coast Guard, Swedish police and Sweden's allies in NATO. The ship has previously attracted attention in connection with its transport of uranium between Russia and EU countries. The actual cargo of the vessel was not known. It remained stationary at its mooring as of Sep 30.
Freighter underway with nuclear fuel to Germany despite sanctions against Russia
Despite the sanctions imposed as a result of the Russian attack on Ukraine and the decision to phase out nuclear power, Germany continues to import nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants from Russia. The 'Mikhail Dudin' sailed from the port of St. Petersburg on Sep 5, headed through the Baltic Sea to Rotterdam with an ETA as of Sep 11, 2022. The ship has loaded enriched uranium for the fuel element factory in Lingen (Emsland) in Lower Saxon. In the afternoon of Sep 7, the "Mikhail Dudin" was underway in the Baltic Sea off the Swedish island of Gotland. The uranium should then reach Lingen by road transport in the morning of Sep 12- To get to Rotterdam by Sep 11, there are two options, through the Kiel Canal or across the Skagerrak. The latter route is more likely, since the "Mikhail Dudin" has not passed the canal in recent months and has not yet requested a pilot as of Sep 7 evening. According to the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (Base), the sender of the nuclear transport is the Russian state-owned company JSC Tenex, which in turn is 100 percent owned by the state-owned Russian nuclear company Rosatom. The permit is valid until the end of 2022 and covers a total of 35 transports.The Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke transferred the responsibility to the subordinate Federal Office. The recipient of the uranium hexafluoride is Advanced Nuclear Fuels (ANF), which operates a fuel element factory in Lingen and intends to continue producing nuclear fuel there for nuclear power plants in other EU countries until at least 2032. Several hundred tons of uranium can be processed there every year. The plant belongs to a subsidiary of the French energy group Électricité de France. A subsidiary of JSC Tenex recently wanted to get involved there. However, the Russian-French consortium collapsed in February for unknown reasons. An international group of representatives from Germany, Russia and the Netherlands called for the nuclear transport to be stopped immediately on Sep 7. The alliance called for the embargo to be extended to include nuclear fuels, which are exempt from sanctions against Russia. The international alliance of nuclear power opponents called for the closure of the fuel element factory in Lingen and the uranium enrichment plant in neighboring Gronau in North Rhine-Westphalia, which belongs to the British Urenco Group. Part of the Russian uranium transport was originally supposed to go to Gronau. However, Urenco canceled his order in June. According to the Dutch transport permit, Urenco cited Russia's attack on Ukraine as the reason for the cancellation. ANF obviously stuck to the order.
Collision in Fredrikstad
The container m/v 'Adilia I' was in collision with the cargo m/v 'Mikhail Dudin' in the port of Fredrikstad on Nov 13, 2020. There were no injuries nor pollution as a result of the impact. The Portuguese maritime inspection office has initiated the notification procedures and the collection of evidence of the incident for analysis. The 'Mikhail Dudin' left the port again at 6.55 p.m., headed to St. Petersburg, ETA Nov 22. The 'Adilia I' sailed on Nov 14 at 7.40 a.m. and berthed in Reyjkjavik on Nov 17.
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