Icebreaker Sakhalin

The Icebreaker Sakhalin is a large modern Russian icebreaker built for the Far Eastern Shipping Company Transport Group (FESCO).cite news
url=http://www.akeryardsmarine.com/ship_ice.html
title=Akers Marine Yard: Icebreakers
publisher=Akers Marine
date=December 3 2007
accessdate=2008-02-19
quote=] The Sakhalin was launched in 2005, and is both steered and propelled by azipods -- which can be rotated to direct their thrust in any direction.cite news
url=http://www.marinelink.com/Story/Transas+Equips+New+Ice-breaker-16467.html
title=Transas Equips New Ice-breaker
publisher=Marine Link
date=Friday, June 17, 2005
accessdate=2008-02-19
quote=The main task of “Fesko Sakhalin” is to provide an all-year-round service, preventing accidents on drilling platforms at Sakhalin shelf, as well as transportation of dry, liquid and chemical cargo, pallets and containers.] The Sakhalin is designed with a stern designed to break through ice.

FESCO Transport Group has a fleet of five icebreakers.cite news
url=http://www.fesco.ru/en/assets/fleet-fesco/vessels/icebreakers/
title=Fesco Vessels
page=
pages=
publisher=Fesco Transport Group
author=
accessdate=2008-02-19
quote=] Sakhalin was completed in 2005.The others were all built between 1975 and 1982.

pecifications

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Tonnage |
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Class |
:1A1 SUPPLY VESSEL:ICEBREAKER ICE-10:STANDBY VESSEL:FIRE FIGHTER I

ee also

*"Icebreaker Admiral Makarov
*"Icebreaker Magadan
*"Kapitan Khlebnikov
*"Icebreaker Krasin

References