Total of 9 Greek-owned vessels in northern Black Sea

Greece’s shipping ministry on Thursday announced that eight Greek-flagged vessels were in the northern Black Sea region this week, along with a Greek-owned ship on the Malta registry. A total of 66 Greek nationals were aboard the vessels.

Specifically, three of the vessels were docked at the west Ukraine port of Odessa, three were located in the Kerch Strait, and another three near the Russian port of Novorossiysk, in the eastern part of the Black Sea.

Four of the vessels are bulkers, and five are tankers.

Back in Piraeus, the ministry’s coast guard operations center was placed in a higher alert, communicating with each of the skippers of the nine vessels as well as the heads of security (DPI) of the companies managing the ships.