On the 1st of November, a fire onboard the ‘Vilnyus’ started early morning and destroyed most of the ship’s equipment. The vessel was docked at the Murmansk Fisheries Port and no-one was hurt, as the local emergency authority informed. Unfortunately, the vessel is highly unlikely to return to the sea and the fleet of the Russian Fisheries agency is expected to decrease even further.
The Nikolai M. Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO) has few operational...
https://safety4sea.com/russian-fisheries-agencys-research-fleet-is-getting-smaller/