Russia to announce tender results for construction of two icebreakers Feb 20, 2013
The results of the open tender for construction of two Project 22220 icebreakers ordered by Atomflot FSUE are to be announced on February 20, 2013. According to the materials of the government purchases, the maximum price of the first icebreaker is RUR 42.002,810 bln, the second – RUR 44.102,620 bln. Atomflot attributes the difference in prices to inflation costs.
The amount of the tender security for the first icebreaker is RUR 210,014,500, the amount of the contract execution security is RUR 12.600,843 bln. The first icebreaker is to be built by December 25, 2019.
The amount of the tender security for the second icebreaker is RUR 220,513,100, the amount of the contract execution security is RUR 13.230,786 bln. The second icebreaker is to be built by December 25, 2020.
On November 1, 2012 St. Petersburg-based Baltic Shipyard held a steel-cutting ceremony for a new generation nuclear-powered 60MW icebreaker of Project 22220. 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. Rosatom is the state customer and investor of the contract while Atomflot FSUE is the construction customer.
Under the contract, the icebreaker of the new generation is to be built by the end of 2017. According to the schedule approved, the keel-laying ceremony is to be held in November 2013, launching – in November 2015. The icebreaker was designed at CDB Iceberg in 2009. A new type of integrated reactor system RITM-200 will be used in the vessel’s nuclear power plant.
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