Officials intend to conduct unscheduled navigation safety compliance inspection of DV-Flot. At present, the Far East transport prosecutor office and transport investigating
committee are conducting their inspections.
The Sakhalin-Kuril Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for Fishery will conduct inspection of DV-Flot, the owner of the Vostok ship missing in the Sea of Japan. This was said by Samir Jafar oglu Kuliev, interim head of the Territorial
Administration to TASS.
"We are planning to conduct unscheduled navigation safety compliance inspection of DV-Flot soon. At present, the Far East transport prosecutor office and transport investigating committee are conducting their inspections", said Kuliev.
According to him, the Agency intends to hold a meeting on 8 February with Sakhalin fishing industry companies dedicated to navigation safety.
On 25 January in the Sea of Japan, 50 to 70 nm off Posyet port in the Primorsky Krai, emergency beacon of Vostok fishing freezer ship (port of registry: Nevelsk, Sakhalin region, 20 persons on board) had been activated. By the end of the third day of SAR operation, several items and two empty rafts were found. On Monday, active SAR operation was suspended by the Vladivostok Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre and took over by EMERCOM, which involved Be-200 aircraft.
