ESKM’s involvement in construction of atomic ice-breakers was discussed in Saint-Petersburg

During the visit to Baltic Shipyard, JSC, the members of delegation have attended «Siberia» ice-breaker, being under construction, and got detailed information about the project realization progress. Also they found out more about production of electric installation works and piping installation jobs, and inspected the equipment, mounted on the vessel.

Conference participants discussed the opportunity of ESKM AK Corporation’s involvement in the project of the fifth production atomic ice-breaker. Top management of Atomflot, FGUP confirmed high importance of construction of ice-breakers and the need to step-up the organizations, performing construction and installation jobs, including electric installation ones. The ESKM’s head, Mr. Evgeniy Subbota, has presented technical and operating capabilities of the company, which has been mainly dealing with full set of electric installation jobs and start-up works at nuclear power facilities and thermal power objects since 1985. He outlined that in 2018-2019 ESKM’s specialists already provided a number of electric installation services during construction of the atomic ice-breaker «Siberia» (Baltic Shipyard, JSC) and diesel-electric ice-breaker «Victor Chernomyrdin» (Admiralty Shipyards, JSC).

Photo credit: Baltic Shipyard, JSC