Sovcomflot (SCF Group)’s latest icebreaking standby vessel has completed its maiden eastward passage along the Northern Sea Route.
The Fedor Ushakov made the trip in a tick under eight days and 10 hours as it headed to work at the Sakhalin-2 project.
The vessel took on a second master/ice advisor as it made the 2,194 nautical miles journey from Cape Zhelaniya (the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago) to Cape Dezhnev at Chukotka.