LK Receives Tanker From Croatian Shipyard

On September 19 the joint-stock shipping company Latvijas kugnieciba (LK) ceremoniously accepted the second tanker – the vessel “Jurkalne”, from the Croatian ship factory 3.Maj, as LK Public Relations Service chief Marita Ozolina-Tumanovska informed LETA.

Iveta Sulca, who is head of the European Commission Representation in Latvia and current Latvian Ambassador to the Czech Republic and Croatia, was selected as godmother to “Jurkalne”. Sulca was also present in the ship’s naming and launching ceremony in Croatia’s largest port city of Rijeka on July 3.