Russia’s first ice-class LNG tanker set to operate this year
The first Russian-built ice-class tanker for liquefied natural gas (LNG) is expected to go into operation in the second half of this year at the Arctic LNG 2 plant.
As reported by Reuters, the tanker, named Alexey Kosygin after a Soviet statesman, was built at the Zvezda shipyard and is due to join the fleet of vessels for the Arctic LNG 2 plant. The tanker, already under U.S. sanctions, started sea trials at the end of last year and the final trial stage is due to begin at the end of this month.
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