The 70.000 tons ice class tanker “Kirill Lavrov” was put on water in a ceremony at the Admiralty Shipyards, where Prime Minister Vladmir Putin, Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov and Minister of Transport took part, Delovoy Peterburg reports.
This is the second tanker the shipyard builds for the Russian company Sovkomflot. The first vessel, “Mikhail Ulyanov” is in final stages of construction. The tankers will be put in shuttle traffic between the Prirazlomnoye oil field and the floating oil terminal “Belokamenka” in the Kola bay.
Earlier this year Sovkomflot received the last in a series of three similar ice-class tankers, designed to transport oil from the Arctic oil field Varandey to Belokamenka, as BarentsObserver reported.
