FSUE “Atomflot” has announced a tender for the construction of a floating dock for service of existing and under construction nuclear-powered icebreakers. Russian shipyard will have to build a dock for two and a half years for 5 billion rubles. the Interlocutors “Kommersant” at the market notice that the declared price for the Russian shipyards may be low. The results of the contest will be summarized at the beginning of July.Subordinate “Rosatom” FSUE “Atomflot” has announced a tender for the construction of a floating dock for nuclear-powered icebreakers, follows from the data portal of public procurement. Maximum contract price — almost 5 billion rubles Dock will be designed for repair of existing nuclear icebreakers “50 let Pobedy”, “Yamal”, “Taimyr”, “Vaigach”, and now under construction of icebreakers LK-60 type “Arctic”, and for ships of nuclear-technological support. The dock needs to be built in two years, five months since the signing of the contract. The payload dock — 30 thousand tons, the service life of 40 years. Now nuclear-powered icebreakers are docking at a private dock on the basis of “Atomflot” in Murmansk, and also in a rented dock in the city centre, but existing floating docks are too small for LK-60, which should be one of the largest icebreakers in the world.About the plans of “Atomflot” to order the construction of a floating dock known from 2017 (see “Kommersant” on 29 September 2017). It was originally included in the program “Rosatom” on construction of the fourth and fifth nuclear-powered icebreakers LK-60 as well as the vessel for nuclear fuel reloading is the total cost of the program at the end of 2018 is estimated at 136 billion rubles (see “Kommersant” on 17 December 2018).According to the documentation of procurement in the tender for the construction of the dock can participate only Russian company. As reported by “Kommersant” on 5 August 2019, among possible applicants for a contract in Russia was called part of the United shipbuilding Corporation baltzavod, the Kerch plant “Zaliv” (controlled by the structure of the group of “AK bars”), and the far East “Star” (controlled by the consortium of Rosneft and Gazprombank). In addition, the “Atomflot” was considered and foreign shipyards, including in China and Croatia. In addition, the announced price for the Russian shipyards is low. The interlocutors of Kommersant said earlier that, on average, companies were ready to take on the order of 8 billion rubles, while abroad the price was about 4 billion rubles. now, However, there are proposals to build a dock using the technology of modular Assembly, tells one of sources. To sum up the contest results is expected in early July.Anastasia Vedeneeva
