In November of the current year at Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg laying of the Russian nuclear ice breaker "Ural" of the project 22220 will take place, - have declared on Tuesday, April 5, the chief designer of JSC CDB Aysberg Alexander Ryzhkov in the Performance at the International Forum "NDExpo-2016 — high technologies for a sustainable development".
At the Baltic Shipyard November 5 the solemn laying of the head of the universal icebreaker new generation of LC -60 project 22220 . The press -service of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation " (USC ) .
At present, the Arctic is considered by many countries as a strategic region in connection with huge hydrocarbon reserves, and strengthening the role of the factors and conditions that underlie the political and energy security of the leading industrialized countries.
In conditions of heightened international competition for resources of the Arctic shelf significantly increases the value of the Russian nuclear icebreaker fleet, as the most effective tool for the transport and economic activities in the Arctic.
By the middle of the XXI century people do not need the Suez and Panama canals: profitable to transport cargo to the Arctic via the North Pole, which will melt due to warming. Polar paths will bring not only economic benefits, but also political friction.
Melting glaciers creates new opportunities, which may well be interested shipowners. The enthusiasm of some contrasts with the skepticism of others.
