Vessel with Panama flag arrested

GEORGIA. The guards of the Poti Regional Department of the Border Police Coastal Protection Operations have arrested the third vessel sailing with Panama flag during the past seven days.

The officers of the Black Sea Conventional Inspection were also involved in the detention operation.

The vessel was waiting to be loaded when the officers of the conventional inspection noticed a fact of sea pollution with feces.

The vessel Egemen Doven was to take aluminum materials from the Poti Port.

'The vessel crew has been already fined with 65,462 GEL. Egemen Doven entered the Poti Port at 5 a.m. yesterday and right after the arrival it committed the fact of environmental pollution,' the official of the conventional inspection said.