Sevmorput

The Sewmorput in Murmansk

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping

IMO no. 8729810

The Sewmorput (Russian Севморпуть ) was until her decommissioning in 2012, the last nuclear-powered cargo ship in the world. It was built from 1983 to 1988 as a nuclear -powered special freighter with reinforced hull icebreaker and Steven from the Saliw shipyard in Kerch ( Soviet Union). The name is an abbreviation of Северный морской путь ( Severny morskoj put ', Russian for Northern sea).

Description

The vessel is designed as a lash Carrier and transport containers. Due to the existing cranes, the container can also be unloaded at ports without container cranes. You can transport 74 LASH barges or 1328 TEU and is designed to break ice up to one meter thick.

Owner and operator was until 2008 the Murmansk Shipping Company ( MSCO ), which began the ship in the Northeast Passage. As part of a focus of shipowners to the oil and gas industry Sewmorput should be converted to Oil Drilling for use in Arctic waters from 2007. However, when they passed into the possession of Rosatom 2008, these plans were abandoned.

After the ship instead lay fallow over the following years in a Rosatom facility at Murmansk, was announced in late 2012 that it was removed from the register and should be scrapped.

Specifications

The Sewmorput is powered by a KLT -40 nuclear reactor with a thermal output of 135 MW, as it is also used in the nuclear icebreakers Taymyr the class.

The depth of the ship to the main deck is 18.3 meters. The draft of the vessel shall not exceed 11.8 meters (summer) and ice navigation in maximum 10.65 meters.