Vitus Bering (icebreaker)
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| Name: | Vitus Bering (Витус Беринг) |
| Namesake: | Vitus Bering |
| Owner: | Dafne Line Shipping |
| Operator: | Sovcomflot |
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| Ordered: | 16 December 2010 |
| Builder: | Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, Helsinki, Finland |
| Cost: | $100 million |
| Yard number: | 506 |
| Laid down: | 19 January 2012 |
| Launched: | 30 June 2012 |
| Completed: | 21 December 2012 |
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| Status: | In service |
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| Type: | Platform supply vessel |
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| Beam: | 22.1 m (73 ft) |
| Draught: | 7.90 m (25.9 ft) |
| Depth: | 11.00 m (36.09 ft) |
| Ice class: | RMRS Icebreaker6 |
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| Endurance: | 30 days |
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| Crew: | Accommodation for 50 |
Vitus Bering (Russian: Витус Беринг) is a Russian icebreaking platform supply and standby vessel owned by Sovcomflot. Built by Arctech Helsinki Shipyard in Helsinki, Finland, she and her sister ship, Aleksey Chirikov, were ordered on 16 December 2010, shortly after the joint venture agreement between STX Finland Cruise Oy and United Shipbuilding Corporation had been signed. Delivered to the owners on 21 December 2012, Vitus Bering will be used in the Arkutun-Dagi offshore oil field in the Sea of Okhotsk.
Only six days after the agreement for the formation of the company was signed between STX Finland Cruise Oy and United Shipbuilding Corporation on 10 December 2010, the newly founded Arctech Helsinki Shipyard received an order for two multipurpose icebreaking supply vessels from the Russian state-owned shipping company Sovcomflot. The value of the shipbuilding contract was US$200 million and the construction of the vessels would provide work for 1,000 man-years. Initially, the ships were to be delivered to the customer together in April 2013, after which they would be used for standby, supply and ice management of Berkut, an offshore platform operated by Exxon Neftegas Limited in the Arkutun-Dagi offshore oil field in the Sea of Okhotsk.
Although the ship was assembled at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, the majority of the steel blocks were manufactured by the Russian Vyborg Shipyard as the Hietalahti shipyard no longer has such production capacity. Only five of the 42 hull blocks for the two vessels were manufactured locally in Helsinki to ramp up the production while the remaining blocks were produced and partially outfitted in Vyborg and then brought to Helsinki on a barge for final outfitting, painting and hull assembly. The steel-cutting ceremony for the first vessel was held at Vyborg Shipyard on 6 July 2011 and production began in Helsinki in August 2011.
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