Foul smelling Ukrainian ship gets help

M/V Beriks - The stinking dutchman

Fairplay reports that the foul smelling Ukrainian freighter Beriks, finally received assistance yesterday from the Ukranian Border Guard. The ship has been marooned at sea since it left the Georgian port of Poti in December of 2008.  Read more in my earlier post on this ship.

Fairplay reported -

Oleg Nyshpor, the head of the Azovo-Black Sea border guard, said his officers would be helping to repair the ship and providing the crew with food and water.

Irina Goryunova of the local ecological inspector’s office told reporters that it had reached agreement with the owner of Beriks that the meat would not be unloaded and that it would leave Ukrainian waters once repairs are completed. She added that she had no objections to this being carried out at Kerchensky’s port.