The Kotor boat has already been issued for a year

The ship 'Kotor', the first in the renewed Montenegrin fleet, set sail from Shanghai on Monday evening and has already been leased for one year, Miodrag Kršanac, director of Crnogorska plovidba, told "Vijesti".

He explained that the ship was leased to "a large East Asian shipping company, PANOCEAN, on a one-year lease."

"The ship consumes 25 tons of oil per day, and it would take 25 days to reach Montenegro. It is therefore not difficult to calculate how much his trip to Montenegro would cost if we wanted to bring him here immediately. Instead, the ship has already started its one-year lease and has already started its maiden voyage. When it arrives in the Mediterranean and is a day or two away from Montenegro, the ship will be brought to Boka for an official christening," Kršanac said.

Krivokapić's bottle did not break

The fact that during the naming of the ship, the Speaker of the Assembly, Ranko Krivokapić, did not manage to break the bottle, so the Chinese had to come to the rescue, and what many sailors consider a bad sign, does not mean anything to Krsan.

"I have been on the world's seas for almost four decades, practically until yesterday, and I do not believe in these things, nor do I pay attention to them. It is much more important to me that we got the ship and that it is already in use," said Kršanac.

He denied the information that the ship was supposed to set sail on Friday, January 13, and that it remained in Shanghai for two more days due to some technical problems.

"The ship was supposed to sail on Monday and it was done so and there were no problems. It was simply agreed that the ship would stay at the shipyard for the weekend to fill with 460 tons of oil and set off on Monday. That's how it was done," says Kršanac.

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