icebreakers
2021 May 12
| 11:00 | Rosmorport icebreakers escorted some 8,000 ships over ice navigation period |
2021 May 11
| 11:16 | BLRT Grupp completed maintenance of icebreaker Botnica |
2021 April 29
| 09:59 | Rosmorport announces completion of icebreaking period in the Gulf of Finland |
2021 April 23
2021 April 20
| 16:44 | RF President signs law on long-term agreements for providing services involving nuclear-powered icebreakers |
2021 April 17
| 12:33 | Contract for two new car and passenger ferries for TT-Line strengthens RMC's order book significantly |
2021 April 15
| 11:29 | Atomflot estimates technical readiness of icebreaker Sibir at 88% |
2021 April 9
| 10:29 | Aker Arctic completes full scale ice trials of icebreaking bow Saimaa and tug Calypso |
2021 March 29
| 11:50 | Winter season for icebreakers to be extended to April in Finland |
2021 March 19
| 18:00 | Icebreaker assistance period ends in Vanino port |
| 09:47 | Icebreaker assistance period completed at the seaports of Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Azov and Yeisk |
2021 March 15
| 16:28 | Russia’s Arctic to need 8 nuclear-powered icebreakers by 2030 |
2021 February 17
| 17:52 | Rosmorport's icebreaker Kapitan Sorokin provides pilotage services on approaches to Big Port Saint Petersburg |
2021 February 4
| 10:45 | TS Shipping wins public tender for provision of icebreaking services and navigation in the Gulf of Finland |
2021 January 28
| 17:45 | FESCO’s vessel departed to Antarctica to supply India's research stations |
| 14:36 | Diesel-electric icebreaker Victor Chernomyrdin starts providing assistance in the Gulf of Finland |
2021 January 20
| 14:26 | Polaris sets off for the Bay of Bothnia as the season’s third icebreaker |
2021 January 18
| 11:05 | Big Port St. Petersburg marks 60th anniversary of icebreaker assistance |
2021 January 13
| 11:46 | Admiral Makarov icebreaker carried out unique towing operation in NSR waters |
2020 December 29
| 13:08 | Kapitan Zarubin icebreaker starts operation at Big Port St. Petersburg |
2020 December 28
| 10:52 | Rosmorport to deploy two icebreakers to assist shipping at Port of Vanino |
2020 December 26
| 14:57 | Ivan Krusenstern icebreaker deployed for operation in Big Port Saint Petersburg |
| 11:34 | Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency deploys icebreaker Kontio towards the Bay of Bothnia |
2020 December 16
| 17:12 | ROSATOM official says the Chukotka icebreaker construction at Baltiysky Shipyard will take 5.5 years |
2020 December 11
2020 December 7
| 13:56 | Baltiysky Zavod to lay down yet another nuclear-powered icebreaker of Project 22220 on December 18 |
2020 December 4
| 12:24 | Kapitan Metsayk icebreaker arrives at Azov seaport |
| 10:37 | NSR cargo traffic grew by 4.2% in 11M’2020 |
2020 November 18
| 16:14 | Rosatom expects annual cargo traffic on NSR to reach 110-120 million tonnes by 2030 |
2020 November 16
| 11:49 | Arktika icebreaker leaves for its first working voyage |
2020 November 13
| 13:07 | Rosmorport announced competition for construction 18 MW icebreaker of Icebreaker7 classs |
2020 November 5
2020 November 3
| 17:50 | Aker Arctic to design next generation Swedish and Finnish Icebreakers |
2020 October 21
2020 October 12
| 13:19 | Arktika icebreaker arrives in Murmansk |
2020 October 7
| 12:47 | Delivery of Victor Chernomyrdin icebreaker scheduled for 3 November 2020 |
2020 September 30
| 15:25 | Acceptance/delivery certificate signed for Victor Chernomyrdin icebreaker |
2020 September 23
| 10:32 | IAA PortNews offers photos from farewell ceremony for Project 22220 icebreaker Arktika leaving for Murmansk |
2020 September 22
| 14:58 | Lead nuclear-powered icebreaker of Project 22220, the Arktika, heads out for Murmansk |
2020 September 17
| 12:33 | Lead nuclear-powered icebreaker of Project 22220, Arktika, leaves for Murmansk on September 22 |
2020 September 11
| 17:55 | Nordic Engineering and Petrobalt designed 6-8 MW port icebreaker |
2020 September 10
| 17:32 | Saint-Petersburg to host 7th Festival of Icebreakers on 19-20 September 2020 |
2020 August 28
| 15:04 | Construction of Victor Chernomyrdin icebreaker extended till 1 November 2020 upon RF Government’s approval |
2020 August 26
| 18:00 | Nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika can be delivered to the customer in September 2020 |
2020 August 25
| 17:34 | Keel-laying of nuclear-powered icebreaker Rossiya, Project 10510, scheduled for September 28 |
2020 July 24
| 17:06 | Kronshtadt Shipyard to repair Rosmorport’s icebreaker Kapitan Nikolayev |
2020 July 16
| 12:58 | Fifth 60-MW icebreaker of 22220 design, Chukotka, is to be laid down in 2021 |
2020 July 10
| 12:13 | Nuclear-powered icebreakers of Rosatomflot assisted 462 ship calls in winter-spring navigation season |
2020 July 7
| 10:08 | Zvezda shipyard starts steel cutting for nuclear-powered icebreaker Rossiya, Project 10510 |
2020 June 29
| 15:27 | Nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika to be deployed in winter navigation season of 2020-21 |
2020 June 23
| 12:19 | Nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika leaves for final sea trials |
2020 June 19
| 12:13 | Construction of nuclear-powered icebreakers and Utrenny terminal included into expanded list of projects with state participation |
2020 June 16
| 15:11 | Rosmorport prepares its icebreaker fleet for winter navigation |
2020 June 3
| 15:49 | Rosatomflot completed escorting Vladimir Voronin gas carrier along the Northern Sea Route |
2021 April 27
Aiming at the North
The Suez crisis showed the dependence of the global trade on reliable sea routes. Although the Northern Sea Route cannot become a comprehensive alternative to the Suez Canal, Russia’s Arctic logistics can nevertheless play a key role in export and short-sea traffic. Its development will be facilitated by infrastructure loans and other state support measures. Aiming at the North