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New Arctic bulk carrier for Murmansk Shipping Company
05/11/2009 |
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The Murmansk Shipping Company has officially taken over its new ice protected bulk carrier constructed at the Chinese Chengxi Shipyard.
The ship Severnaya Zemlya is the last of five new ice protected vessels of the Russian shipping company. The 31,755 ton deadweight vessel will be registered in the Russian Ship Register, a press release from the company reads.
The Murmansk Shipping Company handles about 80 percent of shipping along the Northern Sea Route. The company fleet has a total deadweight of 1,2 million tons. Until last year, the company also had management responsibility for the Russian state-owned fleet of nuclear powered icebreakers.
Source: , photo: MSCO bulk carrier Grumant