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2010 September 14   07:22

Admiralty Shipyards to deliver the Arctic tanker Kirill Lavrov to the customer

Admiralty Shipyards JSC (St. Petersburg) have completed the construction of the second Arctic tanker for Sovcomflot to be delivered today, the shipbuilder press service said.

Admiralty Shipyards company is building two 7,000DWT tankers for Sovcomflot. The Panamax-class Kirill Lavrov and Mikhail Ulyanov were designed to transport crude oil and gas condensate from the Prirazlomnaya field in the Barents Sea.
 
Admiralty Shipyards JSC (Admiralteysky Verfy) founded in 1704, is focused on submarines construction. To date, the Company has built more than 300 submarines (including 41 with nuclear power engines), 68 deep and underwater vessels.

Sovcomflot Group, founded in 1995, is one of the largest Russian shipping companies. Sovcomflot’s fleet comprises of 146 ships of total deadweight of over 10 million tons. The company shipbuilding program includes 10 ships of total 800,000 DWT. The average Sovcomflot’s tanker age is some 7 years (world’s average - 12 years). The Group ranks first in the world in the segment of commodities carriers, the second - in Aframax vessels fleet. The company has the world’s largest Ice Class vessels fleet. It is also the top global operator of Arctic shuttle tankers and LNG carriers with Ice Class.

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