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SCF Group names new ice-breaking PSV in Finland

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02 February 2017

Roderick Craig

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SCF Group (Sovcomflot) president and chief executive Sergey Frank was on hand in Finland’s capital of Helsinki on Monday for the naming of the company’s 3,000-dwt ice-breaking platform supply vessel (IBSV) Gennadiy Nevelskoy at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard.

Doing the honours as godmother to the vessel was Ekaterina Sokolova, research professor at the Centre for Maritime International Studies of the Admiral Nevelskoy State Maritime University in Vladivostok.

The Gennadiy Nevelskoy is one of four IBSVs that the yard is currently building for SCF. The other trio are smaller standby units of 2,000 dwt but with higher accommodation capacity.

SCF says the vessels will be deployed year-round supplying Sakhalin Energy’s three offshore platforms in the Sea of Okhotsk, and also are equipped for environmental protection and rescue operations in case of emergency.

The Russian Maritime Register of Shipping is providing technical supervision during the building of all four vessels, with the Gennadiy Nevelskoy assigned Icebreaker 6 ice class.

According to a statement, Gennadiy Nevelskoy (1813-1876) was an explorer of the Russian Far East, admiral and full member of the Russian Geographical Society. He led the six-year Amur expedition from 1849 that explored the estuary of the Amur River, proving that Sakhalin was an island separated from the mainland by a strait.

“Adding Gennadiy Nevelskoy to our fleet enables us to strengthen Sovcomflot’s position as a global leader in the ice-breaking supply vessel class,” Frank said. “The rich historical experience of Russian-Finnish co-operation in building vessels for Arctic and Sub-Arctic seas constitutes a good basis for contemporary co-operation projects in this field. It is symbolic that the ship on which Gennadiy Nevelskoy carried out the Amur expedition, the Baikal, was constructed in 1848 in Helsinki.”

The vessel’s home port will be St Petersburg.

Alexey Rakhmanov, president of United Shipbuilding Corp (USC), which owns Arctech Helsinki, said: “We have long-lasting ties with Finland’s shipbuilders. Russian specialists collaborated with their Finnish counterparts in the construction of ice-class tankers and special vessels for the development of the Arctic Basin. We are learning ice-breaking technologies from our partners but at the same time we contribute our own competencies.”

Arctech Helsinki has had “overall responsibility for [their] design, hull assembly, outfitting, testing and commissioning” of the four vessels.

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