{"id":642,"date":"2019-07-25T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2019\/07\/25\/ice-class-lng-tanker-delivers-in-record-time\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:12:16","slug":"ice-class-lng-tanker-delivers-in-record-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2019\/07\/25\/ice-class-lng-tanker-delivers-in-record-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice-class LNG tanker delivers in record time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Vladimir Rusanov<\/em> completed the Northern Sea Route (NSR) passage via the Eastern direction and transited the ice-covered part of the route in only six days, setting a new record for independent passage via the NSR without ice-breaking support with cargo onboard.<\/p>\n<p>The net voyage time from Sabetta to Tianjin was completed in a record 16 days, which is less than half the time required to transport a cargo of LNG along the traditional westbound route via the Suez Canal and Strait of Malacca.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robust design <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the second year in a row, our Arc7 ice-class LNG tankers were once again the first ships to open the summer navigation period via the Northern Sea Route,\u201d noted first deputy chairman of the management board, Lev Feodosyev.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis voyage set a number of records for the passage time of the ice part of the NSR, and for the total voyage time to China from the Russian Arctic region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese achievements were made possible due to the accumulated ice navigation experience and the outstanding ice performance characteristics of LNG tanker fleet designed specifically for our Yamal LNG project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to optimize our logistical model to ensure competitive LNG supplies to key global consuming markets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Novatek took control of Yamal LNG IN 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pao Novatek has announced that the Arc7 ice-class LNG tanker \u2018Vladimir Rusanov\u2019 has delivered a cargo of LNG produced by the Yamal LNG project from Russia\u2019s Port of Sabetta to China\u2019s Port of Tianjin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}