• 2008 December 12

    The Moskva to serve St. Petersburg


    On December 11 Baltiysky Zavod shipyard delivered the first diesel-electric icebreaker ever built in the Russian Federation to the customer, RosMorPort FSUE. The Moskva is a head icebreaker of the project 21900 within the framework of which one more icebreaker is do be delivered in 2009. According to the heads of Russia’s transport sector, the event marks the revival of national shipbuilding in the sphere of icebreakers, which is to reinforce Russia’s positions in the Arctic