Large capacity tanker SCF Yenisei set out from Murmansk to Japan along NSR (photo)

On August 6, 2013, the Sovcomflot tanker Yenisei set out from Murmansk to Japan along the Northern Sea Route, the Group’s press center says.

This 47,000-dwt vessel of MR type ice class Ice-1А (Arc4) will deliver light oil products to the port of Chiba (Japan). The distance of 5,767 nautical miles is 56% less than the route via the Suez Canal (12,840 miles). The tanker has been chartered by Glencore within the framework of a long-term cooperation with Sovcomflot through s joint venture on holding and managing the fleet of product carriers. The voyage is expected to last for three weeks including some 8 days along the Northern Sea Route. 

It is the fifth voyage of Sovcomflot via Arctic. The vessel will be assisted by one of nuclear icebreakers of Atomflot FSUE. 

The tanker is to arrive in Chiba on August 29-31, 2013.

Sovcomflot Group is Russia’s largest shipping company and one of the world’s leading shipping companies specializing in the maritime hydrocarbons transportation and supporting continental shelf exploration and oil & gas production. The SCF fleet includes 156 vessels with a combined deadweight of around 12 million tonnes. One third of them have a high ice class. The Group specialises in hydrocarbon transportation from regions with challenging ice conditions. Sovcomflot supports large-scale offshore energy projects in Russia and the rest of the world, including: Sakhalin-I, Sakhalin-II, Varandey, Prirazlomnoye, Tangguh, Escobar, and Peregrino.
The company is registered in Saint-Petersburg and has representative offices in Moscow, Novorossiysk, Murmansk, Vladivostok, London, Limassol, Madrid, Singapore and Dubai.