Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan 17 /Trend A.Taghiyeva/
An insurance company representative is in talks with Albanian officials over the transfer of the body of Azerbaijani Captain Khayyam Mammadov, who was killed in an explosion in a Turkish tanker in the waters around Albania, the company Saygi Denizcilik ve Elektrik, which owned the ship, told Trend on Tuesday.
"All the necessary procedures for the transfer of Captain Mamedov's body are complete. It remains only to obtain permission from the Albanian authorities" the company spokesperson said.
The remaining three Azerbaijani sailors Arif Amrahov (born in 1991), Safa Ibrahimov (1962) and Ramil Melikov (1977) will also arrive in Azerbaijan through Istanbul after receiving permission from the Albanian, the company said.
Six of the 15 crew members of the sunken tanker were Georgian citizens, four Azerbaijani, three Turkish and two Ukrainian.
The Turkish tanker Edirne sank after an explosion in a cargo tank on Jan. 15, three miles from the Albanian Port of Durres in the Adriatic Sea. The tanker had discharged more than 3000 tons of fuel and was leaving the port.
Tanker Edirne IMO 7704291 with deadweight of 4112 tons was built in 1980. It was flying the flag of Sierra Leone. The operator of the vessel is Saygi Denizcilik Ve Elektrik.