The Mistral Vladivostok Is Not Russian Anymore!
Good news, the russian identification MMSI (273549920) for the Mistral Vladivostok has completely been disabled and doesn't officially exist anymore. The page where we were able to see it until today now returns a 404 error while a research with the vessel name "Vladivostok" on the website marinetraffic returns only one result, the French one! Following last Friday's act of piracy when the russian crew replaced the French MMSI by a russian one while trying to move all their belongings to the Mistral to take officially possession of it , the Vladivostok was considered without nationality as she was under flags of two different countries. According to the article 92 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Ships shall sail under the flag of one State only [...] A ship which sails under the flags of two or more States [...] may be assimilated to a ship without nationality Although Romain Nada...