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100.000 t dirty from Murmansk to UK/Continent 08.11.2019 Rate WS 105

Sovcomflot’s crude oil tanker becomes the first to cross Northern Sea Route using LNG fuel

On 2 September 2019 at 08:20 Moscow time, Korolev Prospect, Sovcomflot’s LNG-fuelled Aframax crude oil tanker, successfully completed a commercial voyage along the Northern Sea Route (NSR), Sovcomflot says in a press release. For the first time in the history of shipping, a large-capacity oil tanker has crossed the full length of the NSR using only cleaner-burning LNG fuel. The voyage from Cape Zhelaniya to Cape Dezhnev took 7 days and 6 hours to complete, during which the tanker covered a distance of 2,118 nautical miles at an average speed of 12.2 knots.

Large-capacity crude oil tanker to cross Northern Sea Route on LNG fuel for first time

On 26 August 2019 Korolev Prospect, Sovcomflot’s LNG-fuelled Aframax crude oil tanker, began a transit of the Northern Sea Route (NSR), Sovcomflot says in a press release. She will become the first such large-capacity crude oil tanker to travel the entire length of the Northern Sea Route using only cleaner-burning LNG fuel. The tanker is delivering a cargo of crude oil from the port of Murmansk to China. The journey along the NSR, from Cape Zhelaniya to Cape Dezhnev, will take about eight days, with vessel moving at the expected average speed of 12 knots. While transiting from the Laptev Sea to the East Siberian Sea, the vessel will follow the ‘Tikhonov’ deep-water route that lies north of the New Siberian Islands, which was first opened for commercial shipping in 2011 by SCF’s tanker Vladimir Tikhonov.