New icebreaker to expand Nornickel’s metal concentrate transportation capacity on Arctic route from Dudinka to Murmansk
January 21 2022: Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, has announced the start of construction of an icebreaker designed to expand the company’s transportation capacity. Finland’s Helsinki Shipyard Oy signed the contracts for the supply of the main equipment for the icebreaker ordered by Nornickel, and the ship model, designed by Aker Arctic, a design bureau, successfully passed ice and open-water tests.
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