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2008 March 20   09:22

The Vasily Dinkov tanker (Sovcomflot) is one of Lloyd's List finalists in Ship of the Year nomination

The Vasily Dinkov tanker owned by Sovcomflot OJSC has become one of Lloyd's List finalists in the Ship of the Year nomination, the company’s press center reports.

The ice breaking double acting tanker, Vasily Dinkov, is being dual classed by ABS and the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS). The advanced design of the vessel was recognized by Korea’s Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy in 2006 as representing one of the country’s ten new technologies. The 70,000 dwt tanker has an ice breaking bow and a hull design that will allow the vessel to break ice up to 1.7 meters thick when moving either ahead or astern. The vessel will be able to operate independently without the assistance of an ice breaking

shuttle tanker. It is powered by diesel-electric machinery, driving twin 10 MW azipod drives.

It is the first of three ice breaking tankers being built at Samsung Heavy Industries for Sovcomflot. These vessels will be under time charter to Naryanmarneftegas, a ConocoPhillips/LUKOIL joint venture company. The VASILYDINKOV was delivered to the customer in December 2007.

Sovcomflot Group of Companies is one of Russia's largest infrastructural enterprises. Its fleet comprises 124 vessels with a total deadweight of 8.7 million tonnes. The Group has a new-building order book of 31 vessels with an aggregate deadweight (DWT) of 2.8 million tonnes. The average age of the tanker fleet is six years, all tankers are double-hulled. The Sovcomflot Group is the global leader in MR product carriers, the second largest in the Aframax segment and it owns the biggest ice-class fleet. These market segments are the most in demand for Russia's foreign trade and Russian oil and gas companies. The Group's gas fleet comprises 4 LNG carriers of enhanced ice-class.

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