Vyborg Shipyard
| Industry | Shipbuilding |
|---|---|
| Founded | November 12, 1948 |
| Headquarters | Vyborg, Russia |
| Products | Icebreakers, Arctic offshore vessels, Oil platforms |
| Owner | United Shipbuilding Corporation |
Number of employees | approx. 1500 |
| Website |
vyborgshipyard |
Vyborg Shipyard PJSC (Russian: ПАО «Выборгский судостроительный завод») is a shipbuilding company located in Vyborg, Russia. The company has a focus on icebreakers and other icegoing vessels for arctic conditions but the company also builds deep sea semi-submersible floating drilling and production platforms for exploration of oil and gas offshore fields. Vyborg Shipyard employs more than 1,500 people.
History
The shipyard was founded in 1948. Since the Shipyard was founded there have been built more than 200 different vessels with deadweight up to 12000 tons, total displacement over 1,550,000 tons.[1] At present the shipyard is able to build different type of vessels with deadweight up to 15000 tons. When the shipyard builds bigger ships the hulls of the ships will be assembled at the semi-submersible barge Atlant built at the Vyborg shipyard specially for implementation of the Project 21900M icebreaker order. To launch the icebreaker the barge was towed to the deepwater area of the Vyborg Bay.[2]
In 2012, Vyborg Shipyard joined the United Shipbuilding Corporation.
Current Projects and Orders
On July 10, 2014 Vyborg Shipyard signed a subcontract with Arctech Helsinki Shipyard. According to the contract Vyborg Shipyard will fabricate sections and blocks for a platform supply vessel for Sovcomflot JSC buid by Arctech Helsinki Shipyard. Design and equipment of the new vessel enable all-year-round transportation of personnel and supplies to the oil production platforms at Sakhalin-2 region and enhance their oil spill response and emergency evacuation capacity. The vessel is a further developed version in a series of two icebreaking supply vessels Aleksey Chirikov and Vitus Bering also built in co-operation between Arctech Helsinki Shipyard and Vyborg Shipyard.[3][4] In summer 2014, Arctech and Vyborg Shipyard received an additional order of three icebreaking stand-by vessels of this class.[5]
On April 30, 2015 Vyborg Shipyard signed contract for construction of a port icebreaker under Yamal LNG project. The port icebreaker with innovative propulsion system will be built at Vyborg Shipyard to be operated in the port of Sabetta. The distinctive feature of the vessel is innovative propulsion complex consisting of four thrusters with capacity of 3 MW each.[6] The thrusters are located in pairs in bow and in stern that provides maximized operability in ice conditions, excellent maneuverability and performance of special operations in the water area of the Sabetta port where at the present moment LNG plant is under construction for Yamal LNG project.[7]
In April 2015, Vyborg Shipyard signed contract which stipulated that two multi-purpose diesel-powered icebreaking support vessels 22 MW will be built at Vyborg Shipyard by the order of Gazprom Neft Novy Port. According to the contract both vessels will be delivered to the customer by 2018. Icebreaking support vessels will be operated on the Arctic terminal of the Novoportovskoye oilfield located in the west of the Gulf of Ob on the Yamal Peninsula. Design of the new vessels is based on the Aker Arc 130 A concept by Aker Arctic.[8] The first of two vessels ordered was laid down on November 3, 2015.[9][10]
In September 2015 Rosmorport had submitted a proposal on extension of the series of Project 21900M icebreakers.[11] The current order comprise three ships. Vyborg Shipyard has already completed one ship, Vladivostok, and has launched an other ship, Novorossiysk. The third ship of this class is under construction at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard.
Ships built or on order
| Ship name | Year | Type | Yard number | IMO number | Status | Notes | Image | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vladivostok | 2015 | Icebreaker | 230 | 9658654 | In service | Project 21900M icebreaker |  |
[12] |
| Novorossiysk | 2016 (planned) | Icebreaker | 231 | 9692571 | Under construction | Project 21900M icebreaker | [13] | |
| Aleksandr Sannikov | 2017 (planned) | Icebreaker | 233 | 9777101 | Under construction | [14] | ||
| 2017 (planned) | Icebreaker | 234 | 9777113 | Under construction | Sister ship to Aleksandr Sannikov. | |||
| 2018 (planned) | Port icebreaker | Ordered | [15] |
References
- ↑ Vyborg Shipyard
- ↑ Vyborg Shipyard finalizes trials of Atlant semisubmersible barge
- ↑ Vyborg Shipyard concluded a contract with Arctech Helsinki Shipyard
- ↑ Steel cutting ceremony held at Vyborg Shipyard for icebreaking supply vessel of project NB 511 under the order of Sovcomflot
- ↑ Icebreaker Murmansk for the Russian Ministry of Transport launched today at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard
- ↑ Port Icebreaker ordered for Sabetta. Arctic Passion News 2/2015, page 4. Aker Arctic. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
- ↑ Vyborg Shipyard signed contract for construction of a port icebreaker under Yamal LNG project
- ↑ Aker Arc130A Concept
- ↑ Two modern icebreaking support vessels 22 MW will be built at Vyborg Shipyard
- ↑ Vyborg Shipyard to build two state-of-the-art 22 MW icebreakers for Gazprom Neft Novy Port
- ↑ Rosmorport suggests extending the series of 25-MW, 21900М icebreakers and building new project vessels
- ↑ Acceptance/delivery certificate signed for diesel-electric icebreaker Vladivostok PortNews, 9 October 2015.
- ↑ Vyborg Shipyard launches icebreaker Novorossiysk of Project 21900М PortNews, 29 October 2015.
- ↑ Vyborg Shipyard to lay down lead icebreaking ship for Gazprom Neft Novy Port on November 3, 2015 PortNews, 30 October 2015, 2015.
- ↑ Vyborg Shipyard to build icebreaker for operation at port Sabetta under Yamal LNG project PortNews, 30 April, 2015.