icebreakers

2018 March 12

17:11 No settlement reached in labour dispute regarding icebreakers

2018 March 6

13:36 Rosmorport’s icebreakers assisted more than 3,000 vessels in freezing seaports of Russia this winter navigation season

2018 March 2

13:33 Multipurpose icebreaker Nordica assists traffic in the Gulf of Finland
11:34 Multipurpose icebreaker Fennica assists traffic in the Kvarken
10:00 Russia has the most powerful icebreaker fleet in the world (photo)

2018 February 26

09:35 Icebreaker Sisu to assist traffic in the Gulf of Finland

2018 February 21

13:18 ATOMFLOT says Russia needs nine more icebreakers for the Northern Sea Route by 2025

2018 February 16

13:25 Nuclear power plant of Vaygach icebreaker breaks Arktika’s record

2018 February 12

16:49 Icebreaker Urho to assist vessels in the Bay of Bothnia
16:24 Icebreaker Voima heads to assist traffic in eastern Gulf of Finland
15:25 Rosmorport’s icebreakers assisted almost 1,500 vessels in freezing seaports of Russia this winter navigation season

2018 February 9

14:58 Krasin icebreaker arrives at the seaport of Vanino

2018 February 5

11:21 USC says diesel electric icebreaker Viktor Chernomyrdin will undergo ice tests in spring 2019

2018 January 31

10:58 Rosmorport’s icebreakers assisted 667 vessels in freezing seaports of Russia this winter navigation season

2018 January 30

13:50 Icebreaker Polaris departs for icebreaking duty in the Bothnian Bay (photo)

2018 January 29

09:44 15 icebreaker escort operations performed in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on Jan 26-27

2018 January 26

19:29 Construction of Viktor Chernomyrdin icebreaker involves 600 people every day (photo)
14:34 5 icebreakers offer assistance at Russian seaports of Azov Sea
12:34 16 icebreaker escort operations performed in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on Jan 25-26

2018 January 25

18:05 Finnish shipowner Arctia ready to support Canada
12:27 Nine vessels escorted by icebreakers in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on Jan 24-25

2018 January 24

12:33 Nine vessels escorted by icebreakers in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on Jan 23-24

2018 January 23

18:02 492 vessels escorted by nuclear-powered icebreakers on NSR up 20% Y-o-Y
13:03 Six vessels escorted by icebreakers in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on Jan 22-23
11:24 Vyborg Shipyard to deliver IBSV01 icebreakers Andrey Vilkitsky and Aleksandr Sannikov in 2018

2018 January 22

16:21 Rosmorport’s icebreakers assisted 269 vessels at seaports of Russia this winter navigation season
13:59 Four vessels escorted by icebreakers in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on Jan 21-22

2018 January 19

11:28 Nine vessels escorted by icebreakers in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on Jan 18-19

2018 January 18

14:19 Three vessels escorted by icebreakers in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on Jan 17-18

2018 January 17

15:21 Three vessels escorted by icebreakers in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on Jan 16-17
14:49 Beginning of icebreaker assistance period announced at port Primorsk (Leningrad Region)

2018 January 16

11:56 Three vessels escorted by icebreakers in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on Jan 15-16

2018 January 15

16:16 Ice navigation restrictions at port Vysotsk (Leningrad Region) come into effect from January 29
15:27 Three vessels escorted by icebreakers in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on Jan 14-15

2018 January 12

17:55 Icebreakers of Rosmorport’s Azov Basin Branch are ready for ice navigation season (photo)

2018 January 9

17:57 Arctia’s icebreaker Otso departed the icebreaker base in Helsinki as the Finnish icbreaking season’s second icebreaker

2017 December 27

12:19 Beginning of icebreaker assistance period announced at port Vyborg
11:55 Port Vysotsk (Leningrad Region) announces beginning of icebreaker assistance period
09:35 Icebreaker Ilya Muromets leaves RF Navy’s Baltic base and heads for Barents Sea

2017 December 25

14:28 Big Port St. Petersburg announces beginning of icebreaker assistance period

2017 December 21

12:24 ABB completes first modernization of a 38-year-old CCG icebreaker

2017 December 19

13:17 Arctia’s IB Kontio departed towards the Bothnian Bay as the season’s first icebreaker
12:52 PONANT designed icebreaking cruise vessel in close cooperation with Aker Arctic and Stirling Design International

2017 December 12

10:08 Russia and Finland to cooperate in icebreaker assistance during 2017-2018 winter navigation season (photo)

2017 December 7

13:00 USC is looking into building 40 MW icebreaker powered by LNG

2017 December 6

12:46 Russia’s Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin says the country needs at least 3 Leader-type icebreakers
11:54 Construction of Leader-type icebreaker to take 7 years and to cost RUB 78.4 bln

2017 November 30

20:38 Nuclear-powered icebreakers assisted 87 vessels through NSR in summer-autumn navigation season of 2017

2017 November 28

15:20 Newest icebreaker Ilya Muromets to be commissioned by Russia’s Navy on November 30

2017 November 17

10:53 Icebreaker Moskva set sail for seaport Sabetta (photo)

2017 November 9

17:57 Flag-hoisting ceremony held at IBSBV Fedor Ushakov (photo)

2017 October 18

12:38 Baltic Fleet helicopters land on icebreaker Ilya Muromets within state trials

2017 October 12

15:48 MSV Nordica to join Arctic Circle Assembly 2017 in Reykjavík, Iceland

2017 October 2

14:38 Newest icebreaker Ilya Muromets to launch final trials on Wednesday

2017 September 22

14:20 Mooring trials of nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika scheduled for early 2018
12:55 Baltiysky Zavod launches Sibir, first serial nuclear-powered icebreaker of Project 22220 (photo)

2017 September 19

10:45 Central Design Bureau Iceberg developed basic design of new 40-MW icebreaker

2017 September 18

16:47 Rosmorport to start construction of shallow-draft icebreaker before the year end

2017 September 13

16:28 Icebreaker Novorossiysk leaves Murmansk to support the expedition of Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (photo)

2017 September 11

13:44 Vaygach icebreaker assists ships of RF Navy’s Northern Fleet through ice-dangerous areas