Akademik Cherskiy (ship)

Akademik Cherskiy (Russian: Академик Черский) is a pipe-layer vessel formerly involved in the construction of the Nord Stream II pipeline in the Baltic Sea.

Sea Trucks Group (STG), a Dutch-Nigerian joint venture and the Nigerian Walvis International were at times linked to the vessel[2] but these ownerships were not corroborated.

[5][6] In February 2020, starting in Nachodka in far-east Russia, it began its journey over the Cape of Good Hope to Sassnitz, the Baltic Sea where it arrived in June 2020.

[7] In Sassnitz, the vessel underwent an extensive upgrade which would prepare the ship for the works at the Nord Stream II pipe-line.

[8] In December 2020, it was announced that the vessel has been deployed to take up the work to complete Nord Stream II[9] where it joined another Russian pipe-layer Fortuna in April.