Mekhanik Makarin

Since December 2023, the vessel has been used on the St Petersburg - Kaliningrad route to transport goods that are prohibited for transit by rail by Lithuania. In June 2024, the vessel called at the closed port of Sevastopol (TOT Crimea, Ukraine) for the first time with AIS switched off, and also called at the port of Feodosia (TOT Crimea, Ukraine).
The vessel can carry any kind of lumber, logs, bulk grain, class A, C and general cargo, except for IMDG Code cargo (dangerous goods).
The vessel is owned and operated by the sanctioned russian shipping company OJSC "Northern shipping company", which is affiliated with the russian ministry of defence and provides services under state defence contracts for the carriage of goods for the benefit of the ministry of defence.
It is one of the largest shipping companies in north-west russia, engaged in shipping worldwide, including along the Northern Sea Route. The company's fleet consists of versatile dry bulk carriers that transport all types of cargo, including radioactive and dangerous goods. It comprises 30 vessels for various purposes: 18 vessels of the transport fleet, 7 of the dredging fleet and 5 of the auxiliary fleet. The company carries out sea liner, tram, multimodal transport, cargo delivery to unequipped shores, towing of various objects, technical management (repair, supply, shipping and warehousing services), provides crew training, corrects nautical charts, and provides mixed (river-sea) navigation vessels with inland waterway charts.
In May 2022, USA imposed sanctions on the russian OJSC Northern shipping company and 27 of its vessels, including the "Mekhanik Makarin", due to the fact that the company's vessels are involved in the military logistics sector of the russian federation, transporting tanks and other military equipment for the russian armed forces.

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Kaliningrad (russia), Mersa Sfax (Tunisia), Mersin (Turkey), Murmansk (russia), Sankt-Peterburg (russia), Sevastopol (Ukraine), Sousse (Tunisia), Kronstadt (russia), Arkhangelsk (russia), Feodosia (Ukraine), Novosibirsk (russia)