The icebreaking stand-by vessels are designed for stand-by and rescue duties and for oil spill recovery and will be used at the North East Sakhalin Offshore region oil and gas field. The €280 million contract was signed in May.
Designing of the icebreaking stand-by vessels will start immediately and the vessels will be delivered between September 2016 and March 2017. The series of the state-of-the-art icebreaking vessels for Sovcomflot includes also one bigger platform supply vessel, which was contracted between Arctech and Sovcomflot in April 2014.
“We are extremely satisfied to receive an order of three arctic offshore vessels from Sovcomflot. This remarkable order brings a lot of work to our shipyard and to the whole maritime cluster”, says Esko Mustamäki, Managing Director of Arctech Helsinki Shipyard in a press release.
