Russian authorities are considering the possibility of building 4 non-nuclear icebreakers at Indian shipyards for the development of the Northern Sea Route. We are talking about private and state-owned Indian shipbuilders. The project is estimated at $750 million, Et Infra writes.
The icebreakers will be built for the state corporation "Rosatom". In November 2023, the Minister for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, Alexey Chekunkov, announced that India had offered Russia to produce ice-class vessels.
India has put forward a proposal for the joint production of non-nuclear icebreakers at its shipyards.
Later, the Minister of Ports and Shipping of India, Sarbananda Sonowal, visited Russia. According to Chekunkov, representatives of the two countries agreed to expand cooperation in the Arctic, as well as to use the Northern Sea Route.
Russia chose India, not China, for its non-nuclear icebreaker construction program. The fact is that due to Western sanctions, European shipyards cannot build ships for Russia, and shipyards in China are booked until at least 2028.
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