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Russian Courts Order Shipping Companies to Pay Nearly 50 Billion Rubles ($629.3 Million) for December 2024 Oil Spill in Black Sea

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A Russian arbitration court has fully upheld a lawsuit ordering two shipping companies to pay nearly 50 billion rubles (about $622 million) in environmental damages for a December 2024 tanker disaster in the Kerch Strait. The spill devastated Black Sea coastlines and contaminated popular tourist beaches, dealing a major blow to the region’s tourism industry.  Siding with a lawsuit brought by Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Re…

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The Court of Arbitration of the Krasnodar region recovered 49.46 billion roubles from the owner and charterer of the Volgoneft 212 tank vessel, which...

The Arbitration Court of Krasnodar Krai decided to recover 49.5 billion rubles in solidarity with the owner and charterer of the Volgoneft-212 tanker, which crashed into a fuel oil spill in the Black Sea. This was reported by Interfax. The Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage filed a lawsuit, and it was fully satisfied. The vessel is owned by Kamatransoil LLC and chartered by Kama Shipping LLC. The Russian tankers Volgoneft-…

The Court ordered the recovery of 49.46 billion roubles from the owner and charterer of the Volgoneft 212 tank vessel, sunk in the Black Sea in December 2024, reports Interfax.

·Moscow, Russian Federation
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