Icebreaking period is over in Yeisk port
From February 21, 2013, the period of icebreaking assistance is over in the port of Yeisk, press center of Rosmorport FSUE informs.
The decision adopted by the Harbor Master due to a long-standing above-zero temperature and ice-clearance of the Azov Sea and the majority of the Taganrog Bay resulting in a possibility to carry out unhampered navigation in the port of Yeisk and at the approaches without icebreaking assistance was signed on February 20, 2013.
The Harbor Master also called off earlier decisions on ice navigation limitations of Yeisk seaport.
Icebreaker Captain Krutov of the Azov-Black Sea Basin Branch earlier engaged in icebreaker servicing of vessels in Yeisk seaport will be in the state of 4-hour preparedness to service vessels in the basin of the Azov sea till the end of the icebreaking period and will be able to assist vessels in the port of Yeisk in case of weather changes.
During the icebreaking navigation of 2012-2013 the Captain Krutov icebreaker assisted 24 convoys of vessels to / from the port. All in all the icebreaker serviced over 160 vessels.