CHRISTOS XXIV (IMO 7041625) is reportedly towing VARZUGA (IMO 7500401) for scrap in Aliaga, Turkey. The 1977-built product tanker, ex-UIKKU, is famous for being the first large ship to be equipped with Azipod propulsion (in 1993) as well as the first non-Soviet ship to transit the Northern Sea Route (in 1997). The ship lost propulsion and steering last year in the ice-covered Gulf of Ob and was towed to Murmansk where it was laid up for a year.