IZMAIL • Following the transfer of Black Sea Shipping Company’s ships from the Soviet Union to Ukraine, most were painted with a plain white funnel with a narrow black top, as seen in this photograph of the 1968 Warnemünde-built Izmail, arriving off Birkenhead on 10 March 1995 from India via Lorient, with a cargo of animal feedstuffs. On 30 November 1996 Izmail arrived at Colombo, where her ownership was transferred to the newly formed Ukrainian Shipping Company, but in May 1997 she was placed under arrest and remained at Colombo for another 12 months before sailing for Chittagong, where she was beached on 8 January 1999 for
Colombo for another 12 months b breaking.
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Following the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Odessabased Black Sea Shipping Company, together with all passenger ships located in Ukrainian territory, then belonged to Ukraine, as did the ships operated by Azov Shipping Company from Mariupol, the Soviet Danube Shipping Company of Izmail and Azcherryba of Sevastopol, Crimea.