A snow cyclone, which has been raging on Sakhalin for two days, left the island. The Vanino-Kholmsk ferry line resumed ship traffic in the Tatar Strait (north of the Sea of Japan (East Sea)), Itar-Tass reports. The Sakhalin-8 ferryboat, which can admit 26 loaded wagons and 100 passengers, left Vanino and will arrive in Kholmsk on Monday evening, a duty officer of the Sakhalin maritime shipping company said on Monday.
The ferry line operates four ferryboats, which can carry 2,427 tons each and are 127 meters each. The Kaliningrad shipyard built these ferryboats 30 years ago particularly for the ferry line between Sakhalin and the Russian mainland. The ferry line is idle for about three months a year over high storms. The Russian Far East authorities are pondering over building a bridge between Sakhalin and the mainland in the narrowest part of the strait that is not more than seven kilometers wide.