📸🇪🇬Alexandria based Romalex Marine’s 1979 Vyborg shipyard-built Project 1590P “Pioner Moskvy” type 6000 DWT ice strengthened hull cargo vessel 🇹🇿KAREEM R (ex-PIONER KAZAKHSTANA) northbound through Istanbul strait today en route from Alexandria🇪🇬 to Novorossiysk🇷🇺 after a 2 weeks long drydock in Alexandria.

Originally designed to carry logs from the arctic forests across frozen seas, she’s the only ship still in service among 27 units of Project 1590P “Pioner Moskvy” type ice class timber carriers built in Vyborg shipyard from 1973 to 1981.