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Arctech to Build an Icebreaking Supply Vessel for Sovcomflot

Arctech Helsinki Shipyard has been awarded a contract to build an icebreaking supply vessel for the Russia´s largest shipping company Sovcomflot. The new vessel will be built for the North East Sakhalin Offshore region oil and gas fieldwhere she will be used as a platform supply vessel for Sakhalin Energy …

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Sakhalin Energy and Sovcomflot Extend Cooperation

The companies have signed a number of agreements for construction and long-term operation of the vessels for Sakhalin-2 project At an official ceremony in Moscow, Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. (Sakhalin Energy) and Sovcomflot Shelf (SCF Shelf) on behalf of Sovcomflot Group sign the contract for construction andlong-term operation of …

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Rosneft, Gazprombank, Sovcomflot and DSME Agree to Jointly Develop Engineering and Shipbuilding Cluster in Russian Far East

Rosneft, Gazprombank, Sovcomflot and Korean shipbuilding company Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. signed a Memorandum of Understanding on key terms of cooperation to establish shipbuilding and industrial cluster in the southern part of Primorskiy Krai (Russian Far East). The parties agreed to jointly complete the construction and launch a …

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Sovcomflot, USC and Gazprom Sign Agreements on Reservation of Construction Slots for “Gaz Ice” Carrier Series and Promotion of Russian Involvement in LNG Shipbuilding

Today at the Saint-Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia’s largest shipping company OAO Sovcomflot signed an agreement with OAO United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) for the reservation of construction slots for the placement of orders to build further gas carriers of the Velikiy Novgorod series. Along with the agreement on the reservation …

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Sovcomflot, NOVATEK and VEB Sign Memorandum on Cooperation as Part of Yamal LNG Project

At the Saint-Petersburg International Economic Forum, Sovcomflot – Russia’s largest shipping company, OAO Novatek – the leading independent natural gas producer, and the state corporation “Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs” (Vnesheconombank) signed a memorandum on cooperation as part of the Yamal LNG project, providing for the construction of …

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Sovcomflot concludes USD 160 million, 12 year export credit facility

Sovcomflot today announces that on 12 December 2012 it signed a USD 160 million, 12 year export credit facility with Finnvera plc, Finnish Export Credit Ltd. and ING BANK N.V. The funds will be used towards financing two new ice-breaking supply vessels, Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov, currently under construction …

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Sovcomflot executes USD 700 million 7-year loan

Sovcomflot (SCF Group) is pleased to announce that it has signed a new USD 700 million seven year credit facility with a consortium of eight leading international banks, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas S.A., Citibank, N.A., DVB Bank SE, ING Bank N.V., Nordea Bank Norge ASA and …

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Sovcomflot Strengthens its Technical Management Operation and Announces New Appointments

Sovcomflot announces changes to the structure of its technical management operation and new appointments, as part of the company’s ongoing strategic development plans. Igor Tonkovidov, Executive Board member of OAO Sovcomflot and since 2009 the President of Novoship, is appointed Executive Vice President of OAO Sovcomflot and Technical Director of …

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Arctech Helsinki Shipyard has Started the Hull Assembly of Arctic Offshore Vessel NB 507

The hull assembly of arctic offshore vessel NB 507 was started at the Keel Laying Ceremony at Helsinki Shipyard 3 July 2012. The ship is the sister vessel of NB 506 that was launched on Saturday 30 June. The offshore vessels are being built for Russian Shipping Company Sovcomflot and …

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Sovcomflot and Shell Develop their Cooperation

Agreement signed for long-term time-charter of two ice class LNG carriers At the XVI St. Petersburg International Economic Forum Russia’s Sovcomflot, the world’s largest operator of ice class vessels, signed an agreement to provide Shell will the use of two modern LNG carriers on the basis of a long-term time …

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