Russian Nuclear Icebreakers Clear Path For First LNG Delivery of the Year to Asia via Arctic

Russian Nuclear Icebreakers Clear Path For First LNG Delivery of the Year to Asia via Arctic

Russia’s Yamal LNG project has dispatched the first gas carrier in the direction of Asia via the Northern Sea Route. Two nuclear icebreakers, Yamal and Vaygach, set off ahead of Georgiy Ushakov to scout ahead and escort the LNG vessel. Georgiy Ushakov has reached the East Siberian Sea and is currently following behind nuclear icebreaker Yamal as the two ships encounter thicker remaining winter sea ice.

Russia nuclear ice-breakers clear way for LNG | The Australian Naval Institute

Two nuclear icebreakers are making way for a tanker and two cargo ships in this year’s first transit shipment on the Russian Arctic route. Icebreaker Yamal on June 20 sailed through the strait of Vilkitsky and into the Laptev Sea. It was followed by a LNG tanker, probably the Georgiy Ushakov. In the area were […]