RS to participate in the Festival of Icebreakers in Saint-Petersburg on May 2-3, 2015 (photo)
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) will participate in the festival of icebreakers which is the be held in Saint-Petersburg on May 2 – 3, 2015, IAA PortNews journalist cites Sergei Sedov, Director General of RS, as saying during Saint-Petersburg – Kaliningrad teleconference dedicated to research and preservation of Russia’s marine heritage held on April 10, 2015.
“We are directly involved in arranging the festival of icebreakers as icebreakers are our priority activity. All icebreakers of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation have been designed and built to the class of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (earlier USSR Register),” Sergei Sedov told.
RS is the only classification society in the world to have civil nuclear-powered Arctic ships and icebreakers in its class, RS Director General said.
«Obviously, implementation of the state’s prime task on the development of the Arctic and the Arctic shelf is impossible without icebreakers. Having integrated the efforts of designers, shipbuilders and operators with the application of internationally acknowledged classification system of RS we will gain the objective”, Sergei Sedov summarized.
The world’s only Festival of Icebreakers will be held for the second time in Saint-Petersburg on May 2 – 3, 2015, the Organization Committee says.
The Festival is dedicated to the 70-year anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and to the deeds of the Polar Convoys.
The event will be held in the water area of Bolshaya Neva and will involve the operating icebreakers of the North West Basin Branch of FSUE Rosmorport: Moskva, Ivan Kruzenshtern, Kapitan Sorokin. Icebreaker Krasin, branch of the Museum of the World Ocean in Saint-Petersburg, will be the flagship of the Festival. Citizens and guests of Saint-Petersburg will be able to visit the icebreakers during three-day period, special tours will be arranged to the museum of the Admiralty Shipyards and to the icebreaker Arktika being built at the Baltiysky Zavod.
The Festival programme includes tours to icebreakers, large-scale historic reenactment dedicated to the development of Arctic and the Polar Convoys during the Great Patriotic War, as well as the presentation of the today’s icebreaking fleet of Russia.
The Parade of Icebreakers to be held with the support of PORTOFLOT CJSC on May 3. The programme of the closing ceremony will included the performance of the symphony orchestra and opera stars of Saint-Petersburg.
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) was established in 1913. RS has been certifying containers for dangerous goods since 2001. RS is an IMO-recognised organisation for certifying containers for dangerous goods. RS has been entrusted by the Government of the Russian Federation to certify the conformity of containers for carrying dangerous goods with requirements of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG Code) and the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR).
