Friday, January 13, 2012

Russian tanker makes it to Nome with supplies

The Russian tanker Venda completed its ten-day slough through two-foot ice today, making it to Nome, Alaska with emergency supplies, including 1.3 million gallons of Arctic-grade diesel and gasoline.

The first mid-winter maritime delivery to western Alaska came after Nome, with a population of 3,600, missed its final scheduled barge delivery before winter due to one of the worst storms it has seen in decades.

There were some doubts that Renda would make it to the port, since the going was slow even with the U.S. Coast Guard’s icebreaker Healy slicing a path for the ship through the ice-filled Bering Sea.

- Reuters

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