Medvedev instructs to work out providing Novatek with 4 icebreakers by 2023

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Ministry of Industry and Trade, together with the United Shipbuilding Corporation, Zvezda Shipyard and Rosatom, to work out providing Novatek with four gas-engine-powered icebreakers to be commissioned in 2023, TASS reports.

According to documents from the meeting on the development of the Arctic, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, together with the United Shipbuilding Corporation, Zvezda Shipyard, state corporation Rosatom and Novatek, was instructed to "work out the issue of building 4 icebreakers on gas engine fuel, taking into account commissioning them before 2023".

The results must be reported to the government before March 1, 2019.