Chronology

In 1988, the Joint-Stock Commercial Enterprise (JSCE) Sovcomflot was established, becoming one of the first joint-stock companies in contemporary Russia. Stakeholders of the new company were the USSR Ministry of Marine Fleet and seven maritime shipping companies: Far Eastern, Black Sea, Novorossiysk, Latvian, Baltic, Sakhalin and Soviet Danube. Read more

1973

• The beginning of international commercial charter operations

1988

• The joint-stock commercial company Sovcomflot was established

2001

• SCF pioneered crude oil shipments from the new terminal at the port of Primorsk (Baltic Sea). The inaugural cargo from Primorsk was delivered by SCF tanker Petrokrepost

2006

• SCF pioneered LNG shipping in Russia and became the first Russian company to independently own and operate LNG carriers
• SCF shuttle tankers of Yuri Senkevich series began shipping crude oil for Sakhalin-1 project (Sea of Okhotsk)

2007

• The two largest tanker companies of Russia, Sovcomflot and Novoship, consolidated their assets and merged under SCF umbrella

2008

• Varandey project began production in the Russian Arctic (Barents Sea), with SCF becoming the first in the world to provide large-scale, year-round crude oil shipping in the Arctic without icebreaker assistance

2009

• Russia's first LNG plant began production at Sakhalin as part of the Sakhalin-2 project. The first LNG produced by the plant was transported by SCF carrier Grand Aniva
• SCF pioneered crude oil shipments from the new terminal at the port of Kozmino on the Pacific coast. The inaugural cargo from Kozmino was delivered by SCF tanker Moscow University
• SCF began operating icebreaking offshore supply vessels, a pioneering step for the Russian shipping industry

2010

• Tanker SCF Baltica became the world’s first large-capacity tanker to transit the Northern Sea Route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This experimental voyage proved both the technical feasibility and the economic viability of using the Northern Sea Route for large-scale energy shipping

2011

• SCF tanker Vladimir Tikhonov competed an experimental voyage across the Northern Sea Route and opened up a completely new deep-water route to the north of the New Siberian Islands archipelago for commercial shipping

2012

• With the delivery of Vyacheslav Tikhonov 3D seismic research vessel, SCF further expanded its range of offshore services and entered seismic exploration segment

2013

• SCF took delivery of two new icebreaking offshore supply vessels, Vitus Bering and Alexey Chirikov

2014

• Prirazlomnoye, the first offshore oil project in the Russian Arctic, began production. SCF tankers transport all oil produced by the project

2016

• SCF introduced Shturman Albanov series of Arctic shuttle tankers, purpose-designed for Novy Port project (Kara Sea), which made large-scale, year-round shipping of crude oil from the Gulf of Ob possible for the first time ever

2017

• SCF introduced Christophe de Margerie, the world’s first Arctic LNG carrier – a new, game-changing type of vessel that combines the capabilities of a conventional LNG carrier and an icebreaker

2018

• SCF pioneered the adoption of LNG as a primary fuel for large-capacity tanker shipping worldwide and introduced the world’s first LNG-fuelled Aframax tankers (‘Green Funnel’ series)
• SCF took delivery of Yevgeny Primakov, the latest in a series of new-generation icebreaking offshore supply and standby vessels

2019

• Gagarin Prospect, the lead ship in the ‘Green Funnel’ series of LNG-fuelled Aframax tankers, won Next Generation Ship Award 2019. President & CEO of Sovcomflot Sergey Frank received the award in Oslo in the presence of His Majesty King Harald V of Norway
• LNG-fueled Aframax tanker Korolev Prospect became the first large-capacity crude oil tanker to cross the entire Northern Sea Route using only LNG fuel

2020

• SCF debuted on the stock market and completed initial public offering (IPO) at the Moscow Exchange
• Arctic LNG carrier Christophe de Margerie became the first ever large-capacity cargo vessel to transit the Northern Sea Route eastbound in May, two months earlier than usual
• SCF ordered a series of 15 new-generation Arctic LNG carriers from Zvezda shipyard

2021

• Arctic LNG carrier Christophe de Margerie became the first ever large-capacity cargo vessel to transit the eastern sector of the Northern Sea Route in February. SCF’s experimental voyages of 2020-2021 allowed to substantially expand the period of navigation along the Northern Sea Route

2022

• SCF took delivery of Okeansky Prospect, the first LNG-fuelled Aframax tanker constructed for SCF by Zvezda shipyard

2023

• A naming ceremony was held for Alexey Kosygin, the lead vessel in a series of new-generation Arctic LNG carriers ordered from Zvezda shipyard. The ceremony was attended by the Russian President Vladimir Putin