From the beginning of the 2013-2014 winter shipping season, Rosmorport's icebreakers fleet provided ice-breaking assistance in the Gulf of Finland to 650 merchant vessels as of April 7, 2014, Rosmorrechflot reported.
There are 14 icebreakers currently deployed in the Gulf. As of now, no cargo ship has applied for ice-breaking assistance.
The Captain Zarubin is now escorting merchant ships to the ports of Vyborg and Vysotsk.
Icebreakers "Mudyug", "Thor", "Kapitan Nikolayev", "Karu", "Yermak", "Kapitan Sorokin" "Ivan Krusenstern", "Yuri Lisyansky", "Kapitan Plakhin", "Semen Dezhnev", "St. Petersburg", "Moskva" and "Kapitan Izmailov" are standing idle for now.
Earlier, authorities at the ports of Big Port St. Petersburg, Ust-Luga, Primorsk, Vyborg and Vysotsk had lifted all restrictions on ice class of ships.