Contractor found for shipwreck removal
The Norwegian government plans to allocate 328 million NOK to the removal of the wreck of the Russian cruiser “Murmansk”.
The Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs will cover all expenses for removal of the wreck of the cruiser, which ended its days in the rocks outside Sørvær on the coast of Finnmark in December 1994, news paper Nordlys writes. The cruiser was being tugged southwards for scrapping when it tore away during a storm.
The Norwegian company AF Gruppen Norge AS is chosen as contractor for the project, and the work will probably start this summer.
The wreck has been to a lot of nuisance to the local population, and environmentalists have raised questions about environmental problems related to the wreck.
