Russia to build two more icebreakers by 2020
Atoflot will execute an option for two more new icebreakers to be built at Baltic Shipyard by 2020, deputy head of Rosmorrechflot Konstantin Stasiuk told about the decision at the conference "Prospects for seamless logistics of Russian coal exports," hosted by PortNews.
There are 5 icebreakers of Atomflot operating now on the Northern Sea Route.
In June, the Russian government initiated the construction of a multipurpose icebreaker of capacity of 60 MW (UAL-60). On August 23 2012, Rosatom Corporation’s Atomflot and Baltic Shipyard (Baltiysky Zavod-Shipbuilding) signed a contract for the construction of the RS class icebreaker of new generation of Project 22220. The icebreaker was designed at CDB Iceberg in 2009.
On November 1, 2012, St. Petersburg-based Baltic Shipyard held a steel-cutting ceremony for the first icebreaker of the series.
Under the turn-key contract worth RUB 36.959 billion, Baltic Shipyard is to execute the order by December 30, 2017 and dock the newbuilding at the berth of FSUE Atomflot in Murmansk. Keel-laying was scheduled for November 2013, launching ceremony - for November 2015. The vessel’s construction will be supervised by RS.
The icebreaker LK-60 of 22 220 project will be the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the world. Ship’s main characteristics: length overall - 173.3 m, beam molded - 34 meters, draft at DWL - 10.5 m, minimum loaded draft - 8.55 m, displacement - 33.54 tons. The new generation double-reactor plant "RHYTHM 200" designed by Rosatom’s "OKBM" has reactors of thermal capacity of 170 MW each - more than that of the plants used in modern nuclear icebreakers (140-150 MW).
The vessel features advanced double-draft capability, which makes it suitable for operations both in the Arctic waters, and in the mouths of the northern rivers. The icebreaker will be operating in the western region of the Arctic, the Barents, Pechora and Kara Seas and in shallow waters of the mouth of the Yenisei and the Ob Bay.
