Vyborg Shipyard PJSC () 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 has also built 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 and since then has built more than 200 different vessels with deadweight up to 12,000 tons. The total displacement of the built vessels is over 1,550,000 tons.Vyborg Shipyard. At present the shipyard is able to build different type of vessels with deadweight up to 15,000 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.Vyborg Shipyard finalizes trials of Atlant semisubmersible barge.
In January 1996, Kvaerner, also spelled Kværner, purchased a stake in the Vyborg Shipyard and renamed it Kverner-Vyborg Shipyard () which employed 300 people and was the largest manufacturer of offshore installations in Russia. On 10 March 2000, Kvaerner sold the Vyborg Shipyard, which had 1500 employees but was losing money and faced closure during 1999, to the Sergey Zavyalov () associated early 1990s established Ako Barss Group () which then sold the shipyard to Rossiya Bank owners who placed the shipyard in the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC). Until 2022, Alexander Solovyov (), an ex director of Ako Barss Group, owned the Vyborg Shipyard.
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 built 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.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. In summer 2014, Arctech and Vyborg Shipyard received an additional order of three icebreaking stand-by vessels of this class.Icebreaker Murmansk for the Russian Ministry of Transport launched today at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard .
On April 30, 2015, Vyborg Shipyard signed contract for construction of a port icebreaker under Yamal LNG project for the port of Sabetta. The distinctive feature of the vessel is the propulsion system consisting of four azimuthing propulsion units with capacity of 3 MW each.Port Icebreaker ordered for Sabetta. Arctic Passion News 2/2015, page 4. Aker Arctic. 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.Vyborg Shipyard signed contract for construction of a port icebreaker under Yamal LNG project. The icebreaker, named Ob, was laid down on 27 September 2016Vyborg Shipyard lays down port icebreaker Ob for Sabetta. PortNews, 27 September 2016. ().
In April 2015, Vyborg Shipyard signed contract which stipulated that two multi-purpose diesel-powered icebreaking support vessels 21.5 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 ().. The first of two vessels ordered was laid down on November 3, 2015.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.
In September 2015 Rosmorport had submitted a proposal on extension of the series of Project 21900M icebreakers.Rosmorport suggests extending the series of 25-MW, 21900М icebreakers and building new project vessels. The current order comprise three ships. Vyborg Shipyard has already completed one ship, Vladivostok, and has launched another ship, Novorossiysk. The third ship, Murmansk, was built by Arctech Helsinki Shipyard in Finland.
, Vyborg Shipyard is also building a series of four vessels project KMT01 to Russian fishing companies,RS class: Construction of new trawlers begins at Vyborg Shipyard . Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, 1 June 2017. the contract worth was more than 11 billion roubles.
On February 4, 2021, the large-capacity processor-trawler project KMT01 vessel called Barentsevo More had its official flag-raising ceremony and left for fishing trials in the Barents Sea.
Ships built or on order
Ship name Owner Year Type Yard number IMO number Status Notes Image Ref Vladivostok Rosmorport 2015 Icebreaker 230 In service Project 21900M icebreaker Acceptance/delivery certificate signed for diesel-electric icebreaker Vladivostok PortNews, 9 October 2015. Novorossiysk Rosmorport 2016 Icebreaker 231 In service Project 21900M icebreaker; sister ship to Vladivostok Vyborg Shipyard launches icebreaker Novorossiysk of Project 21900М PortNews, 29 October 2015. Rosatomflot 2019 Port icebreaker 232 In service Project 30044 icebreaker (Aker ARC 124 concept by Aker Arctic) Gazprom Neft 2018 Icebreaker 233 In service Project IBSV01 icebreaking support vessel (Aker ARC 130 A concept by Aker Arctic) Russian flag raised on the Aleksandr Sannikov icebreaker. PortNews, 29 June 2018. Gazprom Neft 2018 Icebreaker 234 In service Project IBSV01 icebreaking support vessel; sister ship to Aleksandr Sannikov Purga FSB Border Service 2024 (planned) Border patrol ship 235 9916599 Under construction Project 23550 patrol ship Dzerzhinsky FSB Border Service Border patrol ship 238 Under construction Project 23550 patrol ship; sister ship to Purga Rosmorport 2028 (planned) Icebreaker 510 Under construction Project 21900M2 icebreaker Barentsevo More Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet 2020 Trawler 935 In service Project KMT01 freezer trawler Norvezhskoe More Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet 2021 Trawler 936 In service Project KMT01 freezer trawler; sister ship to Barentsevo More Beloye More Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet 2023 Trawler 937 In service Project KMT01 freezer trawler; sister ship to Barentsevo More Karskoye More Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet 2023 (planned) Trawler 938 9836189 Under construction Project KMT01 freezer trawler; sister ship to Barentsevo More Nord Pilgrim Nord Pilgrim 2023 (planned) Trawler 939 9836127 Under construction Project KMT02.01 freezer trawler Leonid Gorbenko Atlantrybflot JSC 2023 (planned) Trawler 940 9836139 Under construction Project KMT02.02 freezer trawler; sister ship to Dmitry Kozharskiy Bratya Laptevy LKT Co Ltd 2023 (planned) Trawler 949 9836206 Under construction Project KMT02.03 freezer trawler Dmitry Kozharskiy Atlantrybflot JSC 2023 Trawler 950 In service Project KMT02.02 freezer trawler
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