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Rosatom plans to create a shipyard for composite shipbuilding in Korsakov (Sakhalin)

September 7 2022

Rosatom plans to create a shipyard for composite shipbuilding in Korsakov (Sakhalin Region). This was announced during the Eastern Economic Forum by the CEO of the state corporation Alexei Likhachev.

“We have good groundwork in terms of composites, moreover, I would say that we are absolute leaders here, the first to localize all the technology from oil to the final composite product and … on Sakhalin, in Korsakov, we plan to locate a shipyard associated with composite shipbuilding,” said Alexey Likhachev.

He did not name the specific parameters of the project.

Source: https://portnews.ru/news/335072/

Delo Group is interested in purchasing a shipping company on Sakhalin

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August 15 2022

Delo Group has become a contender for the purchase of the SASCO shipping company on Sakhalin, which is estimated at ₽10–20 billion by experts. If the deal goes through, the group will provide services not only on the railway and in the port, but also at sea

The Delo transport and logistics group of Sergey Shishkarev and Rosatom is interested in buying the Sakhalin Shipping Company (SASCO).

The geography of SASCO transportation covers the entire Russian Far East, China, South Korea, other regions of the northern part of the Asia-Pacific region, as well as the Northern Sea Route. According to the company’s financial statements as of June 30, 2022, 24.99% of its shares belonged to the Cypriot Sandyroad Trading, a similar stake was owned by the former son-in-law of the head of Transneft Andrey Bolotov, 0.01% of the shares were owned by SASCO chief financial director Arkady Kukin. Other shareholders are not disclosed.

SASCO was founded in 1945. As of March 2022, its fleet consisted of 16 ships: 11 transport vessels, three ferries (serving the Vanino-Kholmsk line) and two port tugs. The shipping company transports a wide range of dry cargo: containers, general, bulk and dry bulk cargo, timber and wood processing products. SASCO’s revenue in 2021 grew by 35%, to RUB 6.6 billion, while net profit increased 4.5 times, to RUB 762.6 million.

At the same time, the Delo group considered for acquisition other companies that organize container transportation in the Far East, worked out various forms of participation.

“Governor of the Sakhalin Region Valery Limarenko welcomes the arrival of any investor in our region. The Delo company has a good reputation and is actively developing,” press secretary of the governor, Svetlana Litvinova told RBC. If the group decides to expand its presence in the region, this will benefit the people of Sakhalin and will contribute to improving transport accessibility on the islands (in addition to Sakhalin, the Sakhalin region includes the nearby islands of Moneron and Tyuleniy, as well as the Kuril Islands), she added.

The Delo representative does not comment on “hypothetical, pending or discussed transactions and market rumors.” By the moment, the group and its subsidiaries do not own SASCO shares, he stressed.

At the end of 2021, the founder and main owner of Delo, Sergey Shishkarev (owns 51%), in an interview with RBC, listed the purchase of ships among the priority projects. This is necessary for competition with major global players, including the Danish Maersk, he said.

The group’s interest in SASCO is logical. Currently, Shishkarev has capital, Rosatom’s support and strong market demand for sea transportation, says a RBC source in a transport company. Moreover, earlier Shishkarev did not rule out the option of merging Delo with FESCO (the fleet includes 21 transport ships), which also has assets in the Far East – it owns the Vladivostok Commercial Sea Port (VMTP).

General Director of INFOLine-Analytics Mikhail Burmistrov estimates 100% of SASCO at up to 10 billion rubles, managing partner of Infra Projects Alexey Bezborodov – at 20 billion rubles.

After the purchase of SASCO, the Delo group will be able to form a full logistical shoulder, Bezborodov notes: Delo already owns the largest rail container operator TransContainer and a stake in Global Ports, an operator of port terminals, including those in the Far East. “It is important that the Sakhalin Shipping Company is an old asset with a name, experience in coastal shipping and export-import operations,” the expert notes.

Now transport and terminal assets in the Far East are rapidly growing in price in the context of the reorientation of export and import cargo flows, so the interest of the Delo group in consolidating assets is understandable, Burmistrov agrees. There is a very high probability that Delo will buy both SASCO and FESCO, as well as the share of its partner in Global Ports – A.P. Moller-Maersk (owns 30.75%), he says.

Source: https://portnews.ru/digest/23269/

Mishustin signed a decree on the creation of the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route

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August 1, 2022

The Federal State Budgetary Institution “Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route” (“GlavSevmorput”), which will be created within the framework of Rosatom, will organize navigation on the Northern Sea Route.

“This year, the centralization of powers to organize activities on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) was transferred to Rosatom. Also, Rosatom is creating the Main Directorate for the NSR, which includes the Headquarters of Marine Operations. The corresponding order has been signed. This will ensure the safety of navigation along the NSR, stable delivery of goods, and will certainly attract additional new transit carriers to the NSR,” Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said at a meeting on August 1, Interfax reports.

He said that in 2021, the cargo flow on the Northern Sea Route amounted to 35 million tons, which is 2 million tons higher than planned.

“This year, as of July, it will increase by 5%. As for the transportation of transit cargo, over the past year it has grown by 3 times, the number of voyages has doubled – up to 1627, this is evidence of the demand for the NSR. The expected prospective cargo flow – a task that was set by the president – is 80 million tons in 2024. And by 2030, according to companies that can transport their products, we expect the volume to be about 200 million tons. And this is primarily due to the implementation of LNG projects of the NOVATEK company, oil production projects of the Rosneft and Gazprom Neft companies, the implementation of the Baimsky

project. Norilsk Nickel will increase volumes. The overall effect of GDP growth from the implementation of projects by 2030 will be about 30 trillion rubles, the increase in tax revenues will be more than 10 trillion rubles,” Novak said.

These indicators require a significant expansion of infrastructure along the entire NSR route, the Deputy Prime Minister added. Work is underway to expand the icebreaker fleet, develop sea terminals, and much attention is paid to ensuring security in this area.

“It is very important for us to fulfill all the plans. And the balance of resources, including state ones, should be coordinated. First of all, I am talking about the icebreaker construction program. Please provide all the necessary funds before making changes to the federal budget”, – the Prime Minister said.

He asked Novak to keep all issues of the development of the NSR under personal control.

In June, a law was adopted that centralizes the powers to manage navigation in the waters of the Northern Sea Route in Rosatom. It provides for the organization of shipping on the basis of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route” subordinated to Rosatom. At the same time, the mechanism for issuing permits for navigation in the water area is changing: now, in addition to issuing permits, it is assumed that they can be suspended, renewed, amended and revoked. These legal innovations are being introduced in the context of the growth of cargo traffic along the NSR in order to enhance the safety of navigation on the route.

President has previously stated that deadlines for the development of cargo traffic along the Northern Sea Route should not be moved, and the goal of increasing cargo traffic along the NSR to 80 million tons in 2024 remains in force.

Source: http://morvesti.ru/news/1679/97160/

National Flag of Russia Hoisted on “Sibir” Nuclear-Powered Icebreaker

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January 25 2022

On January 25, 2022, the state flag of the Russian Federation was raised on the ‘Sibir’ (‘Siberia’) multi-purpose nuclear icebreaker of project 22220., the press service of FSUE “Atomflot” reports.

The flag raising ceremony in Murmansk was attended by Mr. Vyacheslav Ruksha, Deputy General Director of “Rosatom” State Corporation – Head of the NSR Directorate, Mr. Andrey Chibis, Governor of the Murmansk Region, Mr. Mustafa Kashka, General Director of FSUE “Atomflot”, Mr. Alexei Kadilov, General Director of “Baltiysky Zavod” shipyard and others.

“Only new icebreakers and ships can make the NSR a real road for our megaprojects in the Arctic zone. I am sure that in the coming decades the NSR will become the Russian route to India,” said Vyacheslav Ruksha.

Mustafa Kashka noted that the lead nuclear icebreaker of this class, ‘Arktika’ was already operating in the NSR Eastern sector, stressing that navigation in this sector usually stopped in November. “But the commissioning of Project 22220 icebreakers opens up new prospects for the development of the NSR. These nuclear-powered ships are the future of “Rosatomflot”, he said.

The keel-laying of “Sibir” project 22220 nuclear icebreaker took place on May 26, 2015 in St.Petersburg. The vessel was launched on September 22, 2017. On December 24, 2021, an act on the transfer of the icebreaker to “Atomflot” was signed on board the ship in St.Petersburg. On January 13, 2022, the new icebreaker left the outfitting embankment of JSC “Baltiysky Zavod” shipyard for her home port of Murmansk. On January 22, the vessel arrived at the berths of FSUE “Atomflot”.

Project 22220 multi-purpose nuclear icebreakers are the largest and most powerful in the world. Their main task is to provide year-round navigation in the Western sector of the Arctic. The main characteristics of the vessel: power – 60 MW (on shafts); speed – 22 knots (in clear water); length – 173.3 m (160 m on DWL); width – 34 m (33 m on DWL); height – 52 m; draft – 10.5 m / 8.65 m; maximum ice penetration – 2.8 m; total displacement – 33,540 tons; the designated service life is 40 years. The icebreaker is equipped with a two-reactor power plant with the main source of steam from a new-generation RITM-200 reactor plant with a capacity of 175 MW, specially designed for this vessel.

The technical design of this project was developed by the “Iceberg” Central Design Bureau in 2009.

The construction of three more project 22220 nuclear icebreakers, ‘Ural’, ‘Yakutia’ and ‘Chukotka’ continues in St.Petersburg.

Source:https://portnews.ru/news/324345/

FESCO ‘Viking’ Delivered Equipment for Akkuyu NPP in Turkey

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January 19 2022

The FESCO transport group organized the delivery of heavy equipment for the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant (NPP) in the Republic of Turkey. Cargo ship “Viking” with eight sets of hydraulic tanks of the passive core flooding system (one of the most important elements of the NPP safety system) weighing 83 tons each and the upper unit with a reactor cover weighing 104 tons arrived from the port of Rostov-on-Don to the cargo terminal Vostochny at the beginning of January 2022. The total weight of the delivered cargo was 948 tons.

FESCO specialists, with direct participation and control by specialists of the department of transport and warehouse logistics and customs clearance of “AKKUYU NUCLEAR JSC” (a subsidiary of the “Rosatom” State Corporation, is responsible for the construction and subsequent operation of the Akkuyu NPP), ensured the transshipment of cargo items from the ship to vehicles using two mobile cranes Liebherr LG-1750 with a lifting capacity of 750 tons and Liebherr LTM-1120 with a lifting capacity of 120 tons, as well as transportation and placement of equipment in temporary storage facility at the NPP construction site.

In September 2021, within the framework of the Eastern Economic Forum, FESCO and “AKKUYU NUCLEAR JSC” entered into an agreement for the provision of a range of logistics services at the Vostochny terminal for handling cargo delivered by sea as part of the NPP construction project. According to the agreement, FESCO acts as a logistics operator for the Vostochny cargo terminal.

Akkuyu NPP is the world’s first project in the nuclear industry implemented by “Rosatom” according to the BOO (build-own-operate) model. The Akkuyu NPP project includes four power units with Russian VVER generation III+ reactors with increased safety and improved technical and economic characteristics. The capacity of each NPP power unit will be 1,200 MW.

FESCO Transport Group is one of the largest private transport and logistics companies in Russia with assets in the field of port, rail and integrated logistics business. FESCO’s diversified portfolio of assets allows for door-to-door delivery of goods and control of all stages of the intermodal transport chain. The Group owns the Commercial Sea Port of Vladivostok, the railway operators “Transgarant” and “Dalreftrans”, dry terminal complexes in Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk and Tomsk. The Group manages more than 8,000 fitting platforms, and container assets of more than 100,000 TEU. The FESCO fleet includes 21 transport vessels, which mainly carry out transportation on the company’s sea lines.

Source: https://portnews.ru/news/324038/

The volume of cargo transportation via the Northern Sea Route in 2021 amounted to about 35 million tons

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January 12 2022

“The final results on the volume of cargo transportation in the waters of the Northern Sea Route in 2021 have been summed up. It amounted to 34.85 million tons,” said Maxim Kulinko, Deputy Director of the Directorate of the Northern Sea Route of Rosatom State Corporation. This is almost 2 million tons more than in 2020, when 32.97 million tons were transported.

In 2016, the volume of cargo transportation via the NSR amounted to 7.47 million tons. For the first time it exceeded the figures achieved by the USSR, when 6.57 million tons were transported along the NSR in 1987. Since 2018, when the State Corporation Rosatom was appointed as the infrastructure operator of the NSR and the curator of the federal project “Development of the Northern Sea Route”, cargo traffic along the NSR has almost doubled.

The goal of the federal project “Development of the Northern Sea Route” is to create infrastructure that will increase cargo traffic to 80 million tons in 2024 and 110 million tons by 2030, as well as increase the total capacity of seaports to 110 and 115 million tons, respectively. It is included in the Comprehensive plan for the modernization and expansion of the main infrastructure for the period up to 2024, developed in accordance with Decree of the President of Russia dated May 7, 2018 No. 204 “On the national goals and strategic objectives of the development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2024”.

Source: http://www.morvesti.ru/news/1679/93443/

“Rosatom” Proposed to Develop a Large Container Transportation Corridor Based on the Northern Sea Route Waterways

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August 5, 2021

The nuclear icebreaker fleet and all projects on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) are developing “even faster than we planned,” said Mr. Alexei Likhachev, Director General of the State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom”, at a working meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 4, 2021. He addressed the President with a proposal to develop a large container transportation corridor based on the NSR waterways (as follows from the transcript of the working meeting published on the Kremlin’s website).

“We … see very serious growth in all three areas: this is the actual icebreaking support of our export projects – oil, gas, coal, metallurgical; this is, in accordance with your instructions, an increase in domestic cabotage, that is, transportation within our huge country, within the territory, along the Northern Sea Route; and we are counting on a large increase in transit, ”said Alexei Likhachev.

He stressed that Russian projects in this area are of great interest in the world. This is facilitated by the growth of world trade, and incidents like the one that happened in the Suez Canal.

“And we would like, with your consent, to start developing a large-scale container transportation corridor on the basis of our Northern Sea Route project. On the one hand, we will use the entire infrastructure of the NSR that has already been created, we are already spending money on it – both budget money and state corporations’ financial assets”, suggested Mr. Likhachev.

“On the other hand, this is a completely new level of business, a completely new level of economic positioning of both the “Rosatom” state corporation and our entire country. Moreover, this is an objective benefit for the world economy. In this sense, we see certain possible deficiencies in icebreaker support, we have prepared appropriate proposals, and we will present them to you today”, he noted. “Rosatom” is the unified infrastructure operator of the Northern Sea Route in accordance with the “NSR Infrastructure Development Plan until 2035”, approved by the government of the Russian Federation.

Source: https://portnews.ru/news/316649/