Russian ships will soon be unable to leave the ports due to the refusal of Register Lloyd's Voyage Rus to sell and update all of its products and services in the Russian Federation, namely, electronic navigation charts. It is reported by New time.

Most Russian ships use C-MAP electronic navigation charts. Until recently, they were supplied by Lloyd's Register Voyage Rus, whose Russian office is registered in St. Petersburg. She has already officially notified Russian customers that she is stopping the sale and updating of all her products and services due to the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine..

" About 99% of vessels use a fixed-term license. By a certain date, it is necessary to make the next payment for the use of a cartographic product. In this case, fresh updates are received throughout the year.. And ships using electronic charts receive these updated products in ports and after that they go to sea,” said Alexei Migalin, CEO of the Russian company NavMarin..

According to him, without updating electronic charts, the port inspection will not release the vessel on a flight.. This can happen both on the Russian side and outside the Russian Federation. In the latter case, the ship will not be able to return home.

The termination of the license for cartographic products can also occur during the transportation of goods.. True, if the ships have a set of paper charts and they are corrected, then navigation safety will still be observed..

" And it is very acute, because ships flying the Russian flag will remain in foreign ports, various kinds of sanctions will be imposed on them, and ultimately this may lead to the confiscation of the vessel,"

Earlier it was reported that the EU sanctions package, introduced on March 9, provides for restrictions on the supply of maritime navigation and radio communication technologies to the Russian Federation..

European Union countries are preparing to collectively close their ports to ships from Russia.

At the same time, before the official decision of the European Union, the largest container companies in the world stopped accepting orders for the transportation of goods to Russia..

The UK has already taken the decision to deny entry to British ports to all ships owned, operated, controlled, chartered, registered or flying the Russian flag..

Canada followed suit, saying it would close its ports to Russian-owned ships..

Recall, on the eve of the war, Russia staged a blockade of the seaports of Ukraine.