The Turkish cargo ship ignored instructions to bypass the pillars of the Kerch bridge. Criminal case opened after Turkish cargo ship collided with Kerch bridge

Experts called the reasons for the collision of the Turkish cargo ship "Lira" with the support of the bridge under construction in the Kerch Strait. It is noted that there was no pilot on the Turkish vessel and it followed through the strait without proper guidance.

As it became known on Wednesday, the reason for the collision of the Turkuaz Shihhing Corp dry cargo ship with the support of the Kerch bridge was the absence of a pilot on the Turkish vessel. “Rosmorport has previously decided to allow the passage through Kerch Strait ships like the Lira without pilotage. The clash is the result of bureaucratic carelessness,” FlashCrimea reports, citing a source familiar with the situation.

It is also noted that the incident with the Turkish ship will not affect the construction of the Kerch bridge in any way. “The incident with the dry cargo ship Lira, as a result of which the support of the working bridge No. 2 in the Kerch Strait was damaged (three piles of support No. 80 of the working bridge were bent), will not affect the course and duration of the construction of this working bridge. Moreover, this will not have any effect on the timing of the construction of the main bridge to the Crimea, ”TASS quotes a message from the Taman Federal Highway Administration, which is the customer for the construction.

Earlier it was reported that on March 19, a Turkish cargo ship collided with a support of a bridge under construction in the Kerch Strait. No one was hurt in the incident. The damage from the collision of the vessel with the structure of the building is estimated at tens of millions of rubles.

The incident occurred due to the "inhibition" of the crew and the order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation

The reasons for the collision of the Turkish cargo ship Lira with the auxiliary facilities of the Kerch Bridge have yet to be examined in detail, but there are already two versions. Some blame the captain of the ship, who did not obey the operator, others see the root of evil in the order of the Ministry of Transport, which allowed ships to sail without a pilot - as a result, on Saturday, the state of emergency became the third in a row. Meanwhile, the Turkish cargo ship was detained for 72 hours - it is in the port of Taganrog.

As it became known yesterday evening, on March 19, the Turkish dry cargo ship Lira, owned by a Turkish company, but under the flag of Panama, passed through the Kerch-Yenikal Canal, which is used to build a highway over the Kerch Strait. One pillar and two savi collapsed completely, two more pillars were displaced.

The collision became inevitable after the Turkish ship, at a speed of about 7 knots, unexpectedly went beyond the "green edge" in the 19th buoy area on the east side of the canal. The captain tried to slow down and return to the fairway, but all to no avail. However, the damage was not too serious. According to the information center Crimean bridge”, repair work will not affect the deadlines for the completion of the Kerch bridge.

The Lira and its nine-person crew (two Indians, five Turks and two Georgians) were also unharmed. However, when the damage is assessed, the situation will be resolved in court, the information center emphasizes.

Rosmorrechflot assured that the construction of the bridge does not interfere with navigation. All vessels passing through the Kerch-Yenikal Canal are aware of the work outside the fairway. In addition, the construction zone was marked with special navigation signs.

By the way, the erected working bridges go towards each other from Kerch and the island of Tuzla, but none of them crosses the shipping channel and will never cross. According to local media reports, the Lira could deviate from the course due to the fact that there was no pilot on board. Indeed, according to the order of the Ministry of Transport, since 2015, vessels with a draft of less than 4.5 meters or a length of less than 140 meters have been exempted from pilotage. In this regard, the collision of the ship with the supports is called the result of bureaucratic carelessness. After the incident, Kerchtraffic Control ordered Lira to take a pilot on board. Now the ship is in the port of Taganrog - it was detained for 72 hours

The Information Center of the Crimean Bridge agrees with this formulation of the problem. They confirmed that the absence of a pilot on board the dry-cargo ship was legal, and the ship simply could not orient itself under the new navigational conditions. The influence of the order of the Ministry of Transport in the Infocenter is recognized as having a “negative” impact on security in the strait.

At the same time, they remind that since the order came into force, this is the third such case (before that, a river-sea class vessel and a ferry crashed). By the way, the cost of pilotage is not too high. And it's only $200.

The editor-in-chief of the Marine Bulletin, Mikhail VOITENKO, shared his view of what happened with MK: “The absence of a pilot on board, of course, could be the cause of the emergency. But "Lira" is a regional vessel that constantly sails along this route. Therefore, the captain was able to independently navigate his ship.

It is not clear why he began to draw close to the Crimean coast. Now it's hard to say. We need to figure out whose fault in what happened is more, but, in theory, Lira is to blame. At the same time, rumors that the Turks could deliberately ram the Crimean bridge under construction are complete nonsense. There is nothing else for them to do. The ship belongs to a private owner who will hang himself for every extra dollar. When Turkey went to aggravate relations with Russia, its private companies continued to transport Russian goods.”

By the way, the ship "Lira" earned transportation on domestic flights. This time the cargo ship was transporting ammonium sulfate from the port of Tuapse to Taganrog.

Meanwhile, the first results of the investigation showed that the fault still lies with the captain of the vessel, who for seven minutes did not respond to the warnings of the operator of the regional vessel traffic management system (RVTS) about the deviation from the course.



The agency said that vessels of the Lira type with a draft of less than 4.5 meters or a length of less than 140 meters, in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation dated October 21, 2015, are not subject to mandatory pilotage. The bulk of the ships passing through the Kerch-Yenikal Canal are 60-100 meters long, and all ship owners go without a pilot. So it was with the vessel "Lira" of the Turkuaz Shipping Corp, sailing under the Panamanian flag.

Nevertheless, the front of construction work in the Kerch Strait does not affect the navigation zone in the Kerch-Yenikalsky Canal, through which ships freely pass from the Black Sea to the Sea of ​​Azov and back. However, the captains of all ships have been warned about the installation of supports for the second and third technological bridges. They are laid towards each other from the side of Kerch and the island of Tuzla in the direction of the fairway.

As confirmed by the data of Rosmorrechflot, the work of bridge builders does not affect the passage of ships. The fairway will remain free for the passage of ships throughout the construction and is marked with special buoys. In January 2016, for example, 3,629 passages through the canal were recorded - more than 50 percent more than in the same period in 2015. Including the number of transit passages increased by 13 percent - up to 961.

Lyra, warning, you are on a dangerous course, change course to port, keep heading 067 deg. Between the buoys," said the dispatcher of the traffic control service in the Kerch Strait, addressing the captain of the ship on March 19 at 23.30.

"Lira, change course to port"; "Lira, captain, you are heading a dangerous course"; Lira, captain, stop forward, full astern," the controller continued.

But for some reason there was no response from the captain of the Lyra, nor a change in the dangerous course.

Judging by the transcript of the negotiations, the collision of the dry cargo ship with the supports of the bridge under construction occurred at 23.35 on March 19. Two minutes later, the captain reported that "the chief officer was checking" the condition of the ship. Later, the captain of the Pobeda ferry appeared on the air. “We were passing by, a Lira drove between the piles,” he said to the dispatcher.

However, according to Vasily Gutsulyak, head of the Center for Maritime Law, such "requirements" of the dispatcher are not mandatory. The final decision is made by the captain, and "he is ultimately responsible for everything that happens to the ship."

"Any instructions from the traffic control service are actually advisory in nature. As well as in relations with a pilot who paves the way, the captain is free to listen to him or make an independent decision," Gutsulyak explained to the VZGLYAD newspaper.

The expert is sure that the collision with the pillars happened by chance, because "there are no kamikaze among the captains." At the same time, he recalled that 90% of all accidents at sea are related to the human factor. Emergencies can be explained by both the low qualification of the crew, the absent navigator, pilot, and natural causes.

Area Sea of ​​Azov is considered by sailors to be difficult for navigation. First, there is shallow water. Secondly, the situation is constantly changing: either a complete calm, or a large surge wave, which poses a serious danger. "Under these conditions, it is difficult to control a ship and not go astray," Gutsulyak said.

The Russian border guards have no complaints about the crew - the sailors have not violated international standards. "There are both Russian and Ukrainian ports in the Sea of ​​Azov, where the Lira was heading, and you can't get to them from the Black Sea except through the Kerch Strait," Komsomolskaya Pravda-Crimea was told in the press service of the FSB border department for Crimea.

Consequences

The head of the Center for Maritime Law does not think that criminal prosecution of the participants in the state of emergency will begin. Still, responsibility will lie in the sphere of civil law relations. When the damage is accurately established, the circumstances of the case will become clear, most likely, there will be a court. And in order to ensure the requirements of the injured party, the ship can be arrested, he explained.

New details of the incident related to the Turkish ship that rammed the pillars of the Kerch bridge came to light.

A source familiar with the situation told the website of the Zvezda TV channel that the crew of the cargo ship did not know the area, but at the same time they were sailing without a pilot. His absence may have been the cause of the collision.

In the near future, according to the source, the decree on mandatory "pilotage" will be changed. All bulk carriers without exception will fall under it. Previously, the rules applied only to those vessels that were over 140 meters and had a draft of more than four and a half meters.

A criminal case was opened after a collision of a Turkish cargo ship with Kerch bridge.

Investigators have opened a criminal case on the collision of a Turkish cargo ship with a pillar of the Kerch bridge, RIA Novosti reports, citing a law enforcement source.

According to him, at the moment the water vessel has been detained in the port of Taganrog. Also, the Arbitration Court will consider the issue of how lawfully the crew of the cargo ship acted. The interlocutor of the news agency did not specify whether these hearings would concern compensation for losses to the developer company.

The Southern Investigation Department for Transport of the ICR did not comment on the information about the criminal case to the news agency. And in information center The Crimean Bridge was assured that the incident would not disrupt the construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait.

As previously reported, on March 19, the Turkish cargo ship Lira crashed into one of the pillars of the Kerch bridge under construction. As a result, support No. 80 was destroyed, two lighthouse piles, supports No. 79 and No. 81 are displaced, and hidden damage is also possible at support No. 79. The ship's owner, Turkuaz Shihhing Corp, was driven by a Turkish citizen.

A source familiar with the situation told the website of the Zvezda TV channel that the crew did not know the area, but went without a pilot, which could have caused the incident.

Afterword

Until the thunder breaks out, the peasant will not cross himself. When will we start thinking a little bit ahead? Such an object must be protected from any accidents.

The exit is simple. In addition to pilots and security groups with them, you need:

1. With light buoys on both sides, 5 miles before the bridge, indicate the direction of movement in the fairway to the target of the passage.

2. Put on the roadstead from two sides (from the Black Sea and from the Sea of ​​Azov) military patrol ships on constant combat duty. And by radio, every ship approaching the bridge should be warned that deviation from the path is considered as an attempt to sabotage a strategic object and will be stopped by all the forces and means of the Russian Navy.

3. For good, you need to organize stones along the entire bridge except for the fairway.

4. When the completion of construction is nearing, a personal air defense system for the bridge will not interfere, somewhere nearby.

5. Pass any truck approaching the bridge from both sides through the scanner to search for explosives.

6. I don't know how to secure the railway crossing. But we have to.

7. The watchmen, of course, must remain when the bridge is built.

Otherwise, being almost at war simultaneously with two countries, we will run into a firewall or underwater saboteurs. If these security measures have not yet been taken, this is criminal negligence. You can't save on this. Although the fee for a pilot can be increased to compensate for expenses.

Incidentally, cases are different and sometimes the most incredible. But more about that another time.

The Turkish dry cargo ship, which on the night of March 19-20 collided with the supports of a working bridge under construction in the Kerch Strait, for seven minutes before the incident ignored the warnings of the operator of the regional vessel traffic control system (RVTS) about an unacceptable course. This is evidenced by the decoding of radio communications between the Kerch Strait RCTS and the captain of the Lira dry-cargo ship of Turkuaz Shipping Corp, which sailed under the flag of Panama.

As follows from the transcript, at 23.20 the control system operator transmitted the course for movement along the strait to the ship's captain. At 23.26, the first warning was received from Kerch about the deviation from the designated course and the advice to return to it.

In response, the Turkish captain asks to repeat the message and after that he does not get in touch for 3 minutes.

During this short period of time, the RVTS operator continues to make recommendations.

"Lira", I advise you next time to go with a pilot, you are not ready to go without a pilot

he says.

"Lira", enter the channel, now your position is 70 meters from the red edge, keep the red buoy on the port side "

.

Finally, the captain of the Turkish dry cargo ship answers, however, the subsequent repeated messages from the operator about the danger of deviation indicate that he did not follow the instructions - he follows his course for more than two minutes, after which he nevertheless agrees

"change course to port"

.

Half a minute later, the operator commands the captain to give

, after another minute, stop all the machines of the ship.
The captain of the ship allegedly agrees, but the next two minutes does not get in touch.

At 23.37, a question follows from Kerch about the condition of the ship, to which the ship answers that they are checking its condition.

After 7 minutes, the RVTS receives a message from the Pobeda ferry: “

Judging by how we passed by, a "Lira" drove between the piles

.

source: c-inform.info
Earlier it was reported that the incident in the Kerch Strait did not affect the construction of the bridge to the Crimea. “March 19 at 23.25 the ship “Lira” under the flag of Panama, company-owned"Turkuaz Shipping Corp", when following the Kerch-Yenikalsky Canal, deviated from the recommended route in the area of ​​buoys 21 and 23a, and then bulked up on structural elements working bridge," a source at the Crimean Bridge information center told TASS.

As a result of a collision with a sea vessel, support No. 80 was destroyed, including piles with a diameter of 1020 mm and a length of 58 meters, crossbars and heads. Separately hammered lighthouse piles were damaged, two more neighboring supports were damaged.

The crew of the ship, consisting of nine people, was not injured, the dry cargo ship was put on a roadstead in the port of Taganrog.

The state contract for the design and construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait was signed on February 17, 2015 between the Department of Federal highways"Taman" Rosavtodor and LLC "Stroygazmontazh". It is planned that construction work will be completed in December 2018, and traffic on the bridge will be opened in working mode. In 2019, after the completion of all commissioning and landscaping of the territory, the bridge is planned to be put into operation.

The Kerch bridge is being built at the expense of the federal budget within the framework of the federal target program "Socio-economic development of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol until 2020", without attracting extra-budgetary funding. The estimated cost of the project is 211.9 billion rubles in the prices of the fourth quarter of 2015.