Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatka, September 6 (AVN) - The Tyumen bulk carrier has delivered several dozens of armament vehicles and over 450 containers with shells from the Chukotka Peninsula to the Kamchatka port of Vilyuchinsk, a spokesman for the Troops and Forces of the Russian North-east said on Thursday.
The vehicles and ammo belonged to the armament storage base of the 99th motorised rifle division, which was disbanded in 1998, the spokesman told the Military News Agency. The division was organic of the Far Eastern military district.
Unloading of the bulk carrier progresses slowly for despite the compressed schedule of motorcade traffic, only 25 containers have been transported from the port to the ammo storage base in the Koryaki village, which is over 60km from Vilyuchinsk. The transportation involves all operational trucks of the Troops and Forces. Road police and military automobile inspection vehicles are convoying the motorcades.
Pacific Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Gennady Suchkov is planning to study the progress of transportation on Saturday. He will arrive in Kamchatka to oversee a command post exercise of the north-eastern troops group.