The Primorsky shipyard “Zvezda” delivered the first icebreaking gas tanker built in Russia to the customer.

The Zvezda shipyard held a ceremony to hand over the first LNG carrier built in Russia to the customer, PAO Sovcomflot. The ARC 7 icebreaking tanker, “Alexey Kosygin,” is the lead vessel in a series being built by the complex for the Arctic LNG 2 project. The vessel is named after Alexey Kosygin, a Soviet politician and statesman, twice Hero of Socialist Labor, who was instrumental in founding Sovcomflot in 1973.
LNG carriers in this series have a high ice class and are capable of operating in Arctic conditions, independently breaking through ice more than 2 meters thick. Each tanker can hold over 172,000 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas. The vessel is 300 meters long, 48.8 meters wide, and has a deadweight of 81,000 tons. The LNG carrier’s propulsion capacity is 60 MW. The tanker successfully completed sea trials – specialists from Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex conducted the first gas tests on a vessel in the Far East.
The vessel will operate under the Russian Federation flag under a long-term time charter contract with Arctic LNG-2. Its home port is St. Petersburg. The LNG carrier’s crew consists of 29 Russian sailors.

Original: https://www.newsvl.ru/economics/2025/12/25/235879/