IMMINGHAM-BOUND - OR IS IT? TANKER WITH CARGO OF RUSSIAN OIL REMAINS AT ANCHOR

                                                

From Russia with oil? Will Seavictory be allowed to unload her cargo in Immingham? 

SPARE a thought for the 20 or so crew on board Seavictory, an Immingham-bound tanker ship with a cargo thought to comprise many thousands of gallons of Russian oil. 

The vessel set out from the Black Sea port of Tuapse on March 11.

Even though she was on course to arrive at the South Bank port just before daybreak last Sunday, there has been a hold-up.

As of 5pm today, she was at anchor  off Withernsea on the Yorkshire Coast where she has been since 7.37am on Sunday.

Why the hitch? This is not known.

It could, for instance, be for operational reasons or maybe because ABP Humber is under pressure, not to accept the cargo given its source.

Or it may be that dockside employees, in sympathy with Ukraine,  have registered opposition to unloading the oil.

The nationalities of the crew members, thought to number between 20 and 25, are not known but Seavictory sails under the flag of Malta.

Whatever the explanation, the men must be bored and frustrated not yet to have completed their journey after 18 days at sea.