Sevmorput (ship)

Sevmorput

The Sevmorput in Murmansk

Ship data flag  Soviet Union Russia   Callsign UHBY home port Murmansk Owner Atomic fleet Shipyard Saliw Commissioning 1988 reactivation November 30, 2015 Decommissioning 2012

Ship dimensions and crew length 260.3 m ( Lüa ) width 32.2 m Draft Max. 11.8 m displacement 61,880  t measurement 38,226 GT / 11,468 NRZ

Machine system Machine performance 30,000 kW (40,789 hp) Top speed 20.5 kn (38 km / h) propeller 1 × controllable pitch propeller

Transport capacities Load capacity 33,240 dwt

Others Classifications Russian Maritime Register of Shipping Registration numbers IMO no. 8729810

The Sevmorput (also: Sewmorput , Russian Севморпуть ) is the last nuclear-powered cargo ship in the world. It was built from 1983 to 1988 as a nuclear- powered special freighter with a reinforced ship's side and an icebreaker post by the Saliw shipyard in Kerch ( Soviet Union ). The name is an abbreviation of Северный морской путь (Severnyj morskoj put ', Russian for Northern Sea Route ).

description

The ship is designed as a lash carrier and for the transport of containers . The existing cranes allow the containers to be unloaded at ports without a container bridge. It can transport 74 LASH barges or 1,328 TEU and is designed to break ice up to a meter thick.

Until 2008, the owner and operator was the Murmansk shipping company , which used the ship in the Northeast Passage . As part of the shipowner's focus on the oil and gas industry, the Sevmorput was to be converted into an oil drilling ship for use in arctic waters from 2007. However, when it became the property of RosAtom in 2008 , those plans were abandoned.

After the ship lay fallow in a dry dock near Murmansk for the following years , was removed from the register and was to be scrapped, the RosAtom manager Sergei Kirijenko ordered a repair in December 2013 instead. Repair work on the Sevmorput began on October 1, 2014; the ship was put back into service on November 30, 2015.

Technical specifications

The Sevmorput is of a KLT-40 - nuclear reactor having a thermal output of 135  MW driven as in the atom icebreakers the Tajmyr class is used.

The height of the ship to the main deck is 18.3 meters. The maximum draft of the ship is 11.8 meters (summer) and a maximum of 10.65 meters when sailing on ice.

Web links

Commons : Sevmorput  - collection of images

• Profile of Sevmorput on the website of the Atomflot (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Лихтеровоз-контейнеровоз "Севморпуть" our-murmansk.narod.ru; accessed on May 9, 2017.
2. ↑ No future for nuclear-powered container ship , on BarentsObserver.com, October 24, 2012 (English)
3. ↑ Press release on rosatomflot.ru , January 2014 (Russian), accessed on March 22, 2015
4. ↑ После ходовых испытаний в Мурманск возвращается лихтеровоз “Севморпуть” , press release on severpost.ru, November 30, 2015 (Russian), accessed on January 6, 2016