Baltic Shipyard will build the fourth and fifth icebreakers of the 22220 project
The Baltic shipyard in St. Petersburg won the bid for the construction of the fourth and fifth nuclear icebreakers of the 22220 project (LC-60Я). The total value of the contract is 100 billion 58 million 690 thousand rubles. The plant is the only one that has the appropriate facilities and modern equipment for the construction of surface ships with a nuclear power plant.
The contract stipulates that the first icebreaker must be delivered to the customer no later than December 20 of 2024, and the second - no later than December 20 of 2026. Thus, after the delivery of the last production ship, Russia will have the five most powerful nuclear-powered icebreakers in the world for this project.
- said the head of the USC Alexei Rakhmanov.
At present, the construction of the lead nuclear icebreaker of the 22220 Arctic project, as well as the first and second production icebreakers Sibir and Ural, is underway at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. All three icebreakers were launched and are under construction, nuclear fuel is loaded on the main Arctic. The deadline for ships is scheduled for 2020, 2021 and 2022 years, respectively.
A feature of the 22220 project icebreakers is the use of variable draft using ballast tanks. Double-deck ships can operate both in deep water and in shallow water in river beds, overcoming ice up to 3-meters thick without losing speed.
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