Russia: Insurance Company SK Allianz JSC Gets Vyborg Shipyard’s Icebreaker Tender

By decision of the tender commission of Vyborg Shipyard insurance company “SK Allianz JSC” has been declared as the winner of the tender for the right of conclusion of a shipbuilding insurance contract for the project of construction of two diesel-powered sea-going icebreakers of project 21900M.

Icebreaker of project 21900M is a two-decker designed for unrestricted area of operation with two azimuth thrusters and one bow thruster, equipped with helideck, displacement about 10 000 t, length 116 m, width 26.5 m. Icebreaker is capable of operation in ice thickness up to 1.5 m.

Purpose of the vessel: independent ice escorting of heavy-tonnage vessels, towage, fire fighting on floaters and other facilities, salvage and assistance to distressed vessels, transportation of cargoes.

Delivery time – May and October 2015.

Vyborg Shipyard JSC is one of the largest shipbuilding companies of the North-Western Region of Russia with over 60-years’ experience in shipbuilding. Since the Shipyard was founded (1948) there have been built more than 200 different vessels with deadweight up to 12.000 tons, total displacement over 1,300,000 tons. The Shipyard employs more than 1500 people. Specialists of the Shipyard are certified by the leading international classification societies: Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Germanischer Lloyd, Bureau Veritas, RINA.

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Shipbuilding Tribune Staff, May 23, 2012; Image: gazprom