Onezhsky shipyard launches ice-class workboat Spolokhee for Rosmorport (photo)

On 9 November 2016, Onezhsky Shipbuilding, Ship Repair Yard (Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia) launched an ice-class workboat of Project SI23WIM built for FSUE Rosmorport.

Rosmorport says the ceremony was attended by the Head of the Republic of Karelia Alexander Hudilaynen, deputy secretary of Russia's National Security Council Mikhail Popov, deputy head of Petrozavodsk municipality Aleksandr Ratnikov, Deputy General Director for State Property Management of FSUE Rosmorport Olga Bragina , General Director of Onezhsky Shipyard Vladimir Mayzus and other officials.

The boat is intended for operation in the mouths of rivers, in coastal areas of open and internal seas, in straits and port waters within 20 miles from a place of shelter.

The boat is to be deployed for operation at the seaport of Arkhangelsk. 

Characteristics:  class of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping - КМ µ Ice2 R3-RSN, hull length – 22.08 m,  breadth including fender – 6.69 m, draught – 1.80 m,  speed - 12 knots, range – 500 miles, endurance – 5 days , crew – 2.

Onezhsky Shipbuilding, Ship Repair Yard was founded in 2002 on the basis of shiprepair facilities of the Belomorsky-Onezhsky Shipping Company, formed in 1944. In 2011, after the enterprise management dismissal the production stopped, and the company went bankrupt. In late 2014 the enterprise was transferred to the state ownership and resumed its shipbuilding / repair activity.