Baltic Shipyard suspends laying of 25MW icebreaker of Project 22600
Baltic Shipyard postponed a keel-laying ceremony scheduled to be held on September 14 for the new generation 25MW diesel-electric icebreaker LK-25 of Project 22600 ordered by Rosmorport. The new date will be announced shortly, the shipbuilder’s press office said.
This would be the first icebreaker keel-laying in the past six years: the last time this class icebreaker the St. Petersburg, was laid down in 2006. The LK-25 icebreaker has become the first newbuilding order since state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation took over the enterprise. The contract worth RUB 7.25 billion was signed in December 2011 in the presence of the then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
The Project 22600 icebreaker LK-25 developed in 2008 should replace two outdated icebreakers the Ermak and the Kapitan Sorokin (Year Built: 1974, 1977).
St. Petersburg-based Baltic Plant-Shipbuilding LLC (Baltic Shipyard) is one of the largest shipbuilding enterprises in Russia. The shipyard specializes in the construction of diesel and nuclear-powered icebreakers, ice-class vessels, heavy lift vessels and warships. Baltic Plant-Shipbuilding Ltd. is a legal entity formed in December 2011 to take over newbuilds orderbook and workforce from Baltic Shipyard, which was at the time facing insolvency.