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DSME has completed the first ship icebreaker for the which liquified natural gas transport to the world
the unit is delivered to the Russian company Sovcomflot
March 28, 2017
the South Korean navalmeccanico group Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) has announced today to have delivered to the Russian company Sovcomflot the first ship icebreaker for the which liquified natural gas transport to the world. The unit, that it has cost approximately 320 million dollars, is long 299 meters, wide 50 meters and can transport 173,600 cubic metres of which liquified natural gas.
the new ship will be used for the exploitation of a gas reservoir on the Peninsula of Jamal, in Siberia western.
DSME has remembered that the order for the delivered ship to Sovcomflot takes part of store clerks for a total value of 14,8 billion dollars for the construction of 15 ships icebreaker for which liquified natural the gas transport that they are ordered in 2014 from Russian customers, Japanese and Canadian and that they will be delivered within 2020.
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