A legal bind, not a lack of financial options, is keeping passengership owner Havila Kystruten from operating its newest ship.
Sanctions against Russian lease financier GTLK Asia kept the 15,500-gt cruise ferry Havila Capella (built 2021) at its berth in the Norwegian west coast port of Bergen, where protection and indemnity insurer Gard denied it coverage ahead of a scheduled Easter week sailing on its state-subsidised Norwegian coastal route.
