Steel cutting ceremony for new Sovcomflot’s Arctic Shuttle Tanker held at Samsung Heavy Industries (Korea)
On 28 July 2015, the steel cutting ceremony for the third ship of the project 42K Arctic Shuttle Tanker was held at the Korean shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries, says Russian Maritime Register of Shipping. A series of six oil tankers has been ordered by PAO Sovcomflot for oil transportation from Novoportovskoye field. The ships are constructed to dual class, RS acting as the leading society.
RS class notation: KM✪ Arc7 AUT1-ICS OMBO LI CCO ECO-S BWM BLS-SPM Oil tanker (ESP) CSR
Main particulars: Length – 232 m; Breadth – 34 m; Draught – 9.5 m; Deadweight– 42 000 t.
Steel cutting and keel laying for all the six ships of the above series will take place in 2015. Completion of construction of the first ship, for which the steel cutting ceremony was held on 1 April 2015, is scheduled for June 2016.
Sovcomflot Group (SCF) is Russia’s largest shipping company and a world leader in the maritime transportation of hydrocarbons as well as the servicing and support of offshore exploration and oil & gas production. SCF is the largest operator of ice class LNG gas carriers in the world. The company’s fleet (owned & chartered) specialises in hydrocarbon transportation from regions with challenging icy conditions and includes 153 vessels with a combined deadweight of about 12.6 million tonnes. A third of these vessels have a high ice class. Sovcomflot supports large-scale offshore energy projects in Russia and overseas, including: Sakhalin-I, Sakhalin-II, Varandey, Prirazlomnoye, Tangguh, and Peregrino. The company is registered in Saint-Petersburg and has representative offices in Moscow, Novorossiysk, Murmansk, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, London, Limassol, Madrid, Singapore and Dubai.
In 2014, net profit of Sovcomflot totalled USD 83.9 million vs. a loss of USD 39.2 million in 2013. The Company’s gross revenue increases 9.9 per cent to USD 1,387.4 million.
