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FSUE “Rosmorport” signs a contract with Onego Shipyard for the construction of two innovative dual-fuel icebreakers

FSUE “Rosmorport” signs a contract with Onego Shipyard for the construction of two innovative dual-fuel icebreakers

FSUE "Rosmorport" and Onego Shipyard signed a contract for the construction of two innovative dual-fuel icebreakers for FSUE "Rosmorport" with a capacity of 12-14 MW of project 23620 and Icebreaker 7 ice class. The icebreaker project is part of the Comprehensive Plan for the Modernization and Expansion of the Main Infrastructure (KPMI).

The contract value is 18.5 billion rubles.

These vessels will be able to navigate through ice up to 1.5 m thick, have an unlimited navigation area and will be able to operate year-round in the Baltic, White and Barents Seas and in the seas of the Pacific Basin.

Vessels of this type will be built in Russia for the first time. This is the first Russian icebreaker project with an electric power plant capable of operating on liquefied natural gas (LNG). The use of environmentally clean fuel will reduce carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere by 20-30%, nitrogen oxides – by more than 90%, sulfur oxides and solid particles – by 100% compared to vessels running on traditional heavy fuel.

The icebreaker of 23620 project is also the world's first LNG icebreaker with dynamic positioning system DYNPOS-2.

Today FSUE "Rosmorport" owns the largest icebreaking flotilla in the world. Within the framework of the KPMI, the enterprise will build 10 icebreakers until 2030 in total, which will allow to reduce the average age of the icebreaker fleet to 25 years in average.