The owner of Solong, Ernst Russ, has said that the 59-year-old captain is a Russian national. Police have now been given an additional 36 hours to question the captain.

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Shipping company Ernst Russ, which owns the Solong cargo ship, said it had separated from the Stena Immaculate and drifted south, but remains alight.

The captain of the Solong cargo ship who was arrested after crashing into an oil tanker off the English coast is a Russian national, the vessel’s owner said Wednesday, as maritime experts search ...

Solong was not detained after the inspections in Dublin or Grangemouth. An Ernst Russ spokesman said all of the deficiencies found in 2024 were “promptly rectified”.

Hamburg-based owner Ernst Russ said the captain of the Portuguese-flagged Solong was Russian, and the rest of the crew was a mix of Russian and Filipino nationals.

A spokesperson for Ernst Russ, which owns the Solong, confirmed to CNN that the arrested man is the ship’s captain and that he is a Russian national.

No containers of sodium cyanide on North Sea crash vessel, owner says Shipping company Ernst Russ said Solong has empty containers previously used to transport the ‘hazardous chemical’.

The revelation comes as the owner of the Solong, Ernst Russ, confirmed the captain who has been arrested by Humberside Police is a Russian national.

Shipping firm Ernst Russ, which owns Solong, confirmed the vessel's captain had been arrested by Humberside Police on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter after a crew member was presumed dead ...

Shipping company Ernst Russ, which owns the Solong cargo ship, said it had separated from the Stena Immaculate and drifted south, but remains alight.

The owner of Solong, Ernst Russ, has said that the 59-year-old captain is a Russian national.