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Nord Stream 2 sends pipelay barge to Danish waters

Pipelay work faces possible implications for contractors from US sanctions against controversial Russian gas export pipeline project

On standby: Russian pipelay vessel Akademik Chersky, with its name concealed, moored next to stockpile of coated pipes for Nord Stream 2 project in the port of Mukran in Germany
On standby: Russian pipelay vessel Akademik Chersky, with its name concealed, moored next to stockpile of coated pipes for Nord Stream 2 project in the port of Mukran in GermanyPhoto: REUTERS/SCANPIX
  • Vladimir Afanasiev
Moscow
Published 8 July 2020, 14:47Updated 8 July 2020, 16:27
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