Data from Refinitiv Eikon showed Russian vessel Fortuna, which is potentially able to complete the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, has departed from the German port of Mukran in the Baltic Sea, days after Denmark gave the project the green light.
Fortuna left Mukran, where pipes for the Nord Stream 2 are stored, Tuesday and is now moving in Danish waters. Fortuna is a pipe-lay crane vessel that was built in 2010 and is sailing under the Russian flag. Akademik Cherskiy, another Russian vessel, which also able to lay pipes, is moored near Mukran.
After the US imposed sanctions in December on the pipeline, Nord Stream 2 has been suspending construction of the pipeline. The Danish Energy Agency said it would allow the Gazprom-led project to use pipe-laying vessels with anchors instead of the more advanced vessels using self-positioning technology, which are affected by US sanctions.
To avoid US sanctions, Swiss-Dutch company Allseas, which was laying the pipeline using two vessels had halted work. Construction of the pipeline is nearly finished but it needs to complete a final stretch of roughly 120-kilometres in Danish waters.
