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Two modern icebreaking support vessels 22 MW will be built at Vyborg Shipyard
Two multi-purpose diesel-powered icebreaking support vessels 22 MW will be built at Vyborg Shipyard (a corporate member of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) by the order of Gazprom Neft Novy Port LLC.
According to the contract both vessels will be delivered to the Customer till 2018. Icebreaking support vessels will be operated on the Arctic terminal of the Novoportovskoye oilfield located in the west of the Gulf of Ob on the Yamal peninsula. The main purpose of the vessels is icebreaking escort of tankers in ice conditions, assistance at carrying out of mooring and loading operations, rescue, towing, fire-fighting and oil-spill response operations.
The vessels will be built under the design for the ice class Icebreaker8 providing icebreaking capability up to 2 meters and considerable manoeuvrability at a rather small draft. The vessel is designed to be operated all year round at temperatures up to -50 Co.
«This new order together with icebreakers project 21900М being built at Vyborg Shipyard once again demonstrates high qualification of Vyborg Shipyard and its role as one of the leading shipbuilding enterprises of the country specializing in construction of highly technical vessels and civil offshore facilities», - commented Alexander Solovyev, General Director of VSY.