United Shipbuilding Corporation and Sovcomflot to build supply vessels for Sakhalin projects
The heads of United Shipbuilding Corporation and Sovcomflot Group in the presence of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed an agreement to build a series of multipurpose ice-class supply vessels to support Sakhalin projects, the Corporation’s press center reports. The agreement was signed in the course of the naming ceremony for the Vitus Bering icebreaking platform supply vessel held in St. Petersburg. No other details of the agreement are revealed.
United Shipbuilding Corporation (OSK OJSC) is the largest shipbuilding company in Russia. It was set up in 2007 with 100% federal ownership. The holding comprises 60 companies and organizations (major shipbuilding and shiprepairing companies as well as leading design bureaus). Currently, OSK consolidates about 80% of the domestic shipbuilding complex. The Russian market is the main focus of the state corporation though it also exports its products to 20 countries worldwide
Sovcomflot Group is Russia’s largest shipping company and one of the world’s leading shipping companies specializing in the maritime hydrocarbons transportation and supporting continental shelf exploration and oil & gas production. The SCF fleet includes 156 vessels with a combined deadweight of around 12 million tonnes. It specialises in hydrocarbon transportation from regions with challenging ice conditions. Sovcomflot supports large-scale offshore energy projects in Russia and the rest of the world, including: Sakhalin-I, Sakhalin-II, Varandey, Prirazlomnoye, Tangguh, Escobar, and Peregrino.
The company is registered in Saint-Petersburg and has representative offices in Moscow, Novorossiysk, Murmansk, Vladivostok, London, Limassol, Madrid, Singapore and Dubai.
