“Norilsk Nickel”, “Rosatom” and the company “Far Eastern Center for Shipbuilding and Shipping” (DTSSS – enters “Rosneft”) entered into an agreement on intentions to jointly design and build a two-fuel diesel-lying icebreaker, which will carry out ice wiring of ships, Carrying out cargo “Norilskiel” in the Northern Sea Route. The agreement is signed at the Playground of the Eastern Economic Forum. About this “Lente.ru” reported in the press service of Norilsk Nickel.
Cargo turnover in the Arctic ports of Dudinka and Murmansk is growing, considered to be in Norilsk Nickel. Therefore, the company modernizes and expands the infrastructure in ports, and also increases and updates the fleet to ensure the processing of increased cargo traffic. The new LNG icebreaker will allow “Nickel” to replace the Taimyr icebreaker, which will be derived from operation in 2027-2029.
Agreement with Rosatom and DCSs is aimed at organizing cooperation between leading Russian companies whose goals are to solve the objectives of a national scale, including the implementation of investment projects in the Russian Arctic, the development of infrastructure and an increase in the freight turnover of the Northern Sea Route, the creation of the Russian production of LNG icebreakers.
Parties will form a working group that will develop a technical task for the design and construction of a LNG icebreaker, select the shipyard, and will also consider the options for attracting financing. By the middle of 2022, the Working Group will prepare a draft contract for the design and construction of the vessel.
“icebreaking fleet – flagship of large-scale modernization of the transport infrastructure of the Norilsk industrial area. Norilskel is increasing the volume of transportation for the timely implementation of strategic investment projects in the region. A new icebreaker will help to solve the ambitious tasks facing it, and the Agreement will become an important step in the development of partnership. leading Russian companies in the field of development of the Arctic, “said Vladimir Potanin President Vladimir Potanin.
Earlier this year, Nickel and Rosatom signed an agreement, which involves an increase in the period of leaving icebreaking services.
Norilskel, the largest industrial company in the Russian Arctic, has a unique experience of exploitation of the Northern Sea Route – the strategic transport artery of world logistics. In 2020, Norilsk Road fleet transported over the Northern Sea Route more than one and a half million tons of cargo, it is about 5 percent of the entire cargo turnover.