Shipping on Northern Sea Route lags far behind plans
For years, Vladimir Putin has insisted that annual shipments on the far northern route should reach 80 million tons by
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Rosatomflot
Slow progress, huge budget overrun for Rosatomflot’s lider-class icebreaker
Sluggish progress and massive budget overrun have characterised the four years that have past since Rosatomflot gave go-ahead for the
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Europe-Asia Arctic route loaded at one-tenth of capacity
Rosatom engages the world’s only civilian nuclear-powered cargo vessels for yet another year on voyages between St. Petersburg and Petropavlovsk,
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Russian nuclear-powered cargo ship returns to Arctic after troublesome year
The nuclear-powered cargo ship crossed the Arctic Circle at 66°34’N early Tuesday morning Currently steaming north along Norway’s northern coast,
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Russian’s nuclear-powered carrier returns from South-Atlantic after propeller blade fell off
Mission aborted: Russia’s new complex for the expanded Vostok Antarctica station will be delayed with a year as Sevmorput has
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Russia’s Rosatomflot files lawsuits against shipyard as world’s most powerful icebreakers are notoriously delayed
Few details on the content of the lawsuits are made public, but Rosatomflot, the federal enterprise operating and maintaining the
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Nuclear-powered container ship unloads cargo for LNG project in Arctic Russia
It is put directly of the ice of the Ob Bay near the spot for Novatek’s new LNG terminal. It
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Nuclear icebreaker operations should be moved away from Murmansk, safety expert says
Rosatomflot’s service base is not sized for all the planned new nuclear-powered icebreakers, says Andrey Zolotkov, who previously worked as
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Russia extends lifetime of nuclear icebreakers to meet rising demand
New powerful icebreakers are under construction, but to meet demand the current fleet of nuclear icebreakers in Murmansk will have
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Putin wants a bigger, stronger, wealthier Russian Arctic
Delivering his state-of-the-nation speech to the parliament on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin highlighted the importance of speeding up the
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Russia mulls two additional nuclear icebreakers
With Novatek’s second Arctic LGN-plant in plans, Rosatomflot Director Vyacheslav Ruksha says the Northern Sea Route «simply requires more icebreakers.»
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Russia’s newest Arctic coal rush
Company VostokCoal has backing from the highest political level for its extraction and export of 30 million tons of coal
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Icebreaker escorts up 100% in Russia
As shipping in Russian Arctic waters picks up pace, the country’s nuclear-powered icebreakers struggle to meet demands. Russia’s nuclear-powered icebreakers
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Last voyage for Sibir
After being moored for 23 years, the nuclear powered icebreaker will be towed for final decommissioning. The Sibir (Siberia) has
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