The Turkish shipyard Kuzey Star Shipyard has completed the construction of a floating dock for servicing nuclear icebreakers of the project 22220 "Arctic". The dock has already left Istanbul and was towed to Murmansk. This is reported by the bmpd blog.
New floating dock, designed for docking of nuclear icebreakers, hit the road from Istanbul to Murmansk. The contract for the construction of the dock was signed between FSUE Atomflot and the Turkish company Kuzey Star Shipyard Denizcilik Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi in June 2021 of the year. The official laying of the keel took place 15 Martha 2022 of the year, launching - 2 October 2023 of the year.
The dock was built for the Baltic Shipyard, but will be located in Murmansk, where the servicing of the nuclear icebreakers of the project will take place 22220. Previously, they had to be transported to the Kronstadt marine plant for docking, whose dock named after Veleshchinsky can accommodate an icebreaker.
The dock's lifting capacity is 30 thousand tons, maximum length with crinolines - no less 222 m, length along the slipway deck - not less 200 m, maximum width - approx. 48 m, pontoon height - approx. 6 m. Crew - approx. 30 human. Power plant: four diesel generators with a capacity of 840 kW and one emergency diesel generator with capacity 120 kW.
As previously explained in Rosatomflot, the decision to build a dock in Turkey was made for several reasons: At first, Kuzey Star Shipyard has all the necessary competencies, and secondly, the cost of building the dock turned out to be much lower than those requested by Russian shipyards.
