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03 Feb 2019

Huge Increase in Arctic shipping

Data from Russia’s ports and Northern Sea Route show that the volume of goods being shipped out into the Arctic waterway are up by 25 percent 2018.According to information from the Russian Transport Ministry, a total of 92.7 million tons was handled by regional seaports, of which almost 70 percent was oil products and liquified natural gas.The biggest increases came in Sabetta, which sits on the icy Yamal Peninsula in the Kara Sea, according to Bellona. With Novatek’s $27 billion Yamal LNG project now in commercial production, Sabetta has seen a 130 percent increase in the volume of cargo it handles – up to 17.4 tons for 2018.Ports in Murmansk alone handled some 60 million tons of cargo in 2018 – an 18.1 percent boost over volumes from the year before.

09 Aug 2013

Nordic Yards to Build Deckhouse for Russian Icebreaker

Nordic Yards rendering of Icebreaker LK-25

Nordic Yards has been awarded the tender for the construction of a deckhouse for a Russian icebreaker. A contract for the fabrication of a deckhouse as part of the superstructure for the icebreaker LK-25 was concluded between the St. Petersburg Baltic Shipyard, which is part of the Russian state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation OSK, and Germany's Nordic Yards. According to the terms of the contract, the deckhouse weighs 2,500 tonnes and is fully fitted out. The keel-laying for the icebreaker "Viktor Tschernomyrdin"…

04 Jan 2011

Russian Shipyards Delivered 14 Vessels in 2010

According to a Dec. 30 report from Port News, in 2010 Russian shipyards competed and delivered to customers 14 cargo ships of total deadweight of more than 1.4 million tons, the Russian Transport Ministry’s provisional data said. Russian shipyards have five newbuild orders - three multipurpose rescue ships of capacity of 4MW and three diving support vessels scheduled for delivery in 2011. (Port News)

16 Aug 2001

Russia Disputes Tanker Investigation

Russia questioned the legality of a Canadian-U.S. probe into the alleged ramming last week off Massachusetts of an American trawler by a Russian-owned tanker, which resulted in the deaths of three fishermen. Sergei Palekhov, head of the Russian Transport Ministry's maritime section, said international law demanded the investigation be held in Cyprus, where the tanker Virgo is registered, and that Russian officials have access to the crew. "We would like to know what is being done to study the (other) ships -- and there were about 10 of them -- which were in the region of the U.S. trawler," Palekhov said. He added that the ministry had sent a letter to Canada's maritime authorities expressing its concerns.