Vyborg Shipyard OJSC commences building hull of the lead 17.4-MWt icebreaker (photo report)

Vyborg Shipyard OJSC has commenced building hull of the lead 17.4-MWt icebreaker of Project 21900М, IAA PortNews journalist reports from the site.

According to Aleksandr Solovyov, the company’s Director General, the launch of the hull is scheduled for late 2013. Then the Shipyard will commence building the hull for the third icebreaker of the Project.

Vyborg Shipyard is executing the contract for construction of three icebreakers of Project 21900М for FSUE Rosmorport. Two of them are to be built on a turnkey basis and one – in cooperation with Arctech Helsinki Shipyard (Helsinki, joint venture of STX and USC). All the three icebreakers are to be delivered in 2015.

According to Sergey Pyrin, Director of Rosmorport’s North West Basin Branch, who attended the ceremony, the icebreakers are supposed to be deployed for operation in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland.

Vyborg Shipyard OJSC is one of the largest shipbuilding companies of the North-Western Region of Russia with over 60-years’ experience in shipbuilding. Vyborg Shipyard is a member of the United Shipbuilding Corporation. Today the Shipyard specializes in building drilling rigs for offshore deposits development, vessels of small and medium tonnage as well as ship repair.