A vessel from Russia's Far East Shipping Company (FESCO) carrying 50 metric tons of bottled mineral water as humanitarian aid for Japan will set off on Wednesday from the port of Vladivostok, a spokeswoman for the company said.
A 9.0-magnitude quake struck off Japan's northeast coast on March 11, triggering a tsunami and explosions in the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Almost 15,000 people died in the disaster and 9,893 people remain unaccounted for. The Japanese government has said the damage from the disaster could total $310 billion.
"It turned out during consultations with the Japanese Consulate General in Vladivostok that territories in Japan, which suffered from the earthquake, are in need of mineral water, primarily for nourishment of children up to one year of age," Tatyana Kulikova said.
One of the large companies in the Primorye Territory in Russia's Far East provided over 32,000 bottles of mineral water in humanitarian aid, which will be delivered on board of the FESCO Nikolay vessel. The ship is expected to dock at the port of Hamada in Japan on May 25.
VLADIVOSTOK, May 18 (RIA Novosti)
