Sovcomflot’s new specialised ice-class shuttle tanker Shturman Albanov has loaded its first cargo after navigating the Northern Sea Route (NSR).
The Russian owner said the 42,000-dwt Arc7 ship, delivered from Samsung Heavy Industries in August, lifted 34,000 tonnes of crude from Gazprom-Neft’s Novoportovskoye oil and gas-condensate field on the Yamal Peninsula.
The oil was due to be shipped to the 300,259-dwt floating storage vessel Umba (built 2001) in Murmansk.
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