Baltic Plant

The company specializes in the construction of warships, large-tonnage civilian vessels for the transportation of various goods and icebreakers (with nuclear power plants and diesel). The Company builds Ro Ro and Ro Pax cargo and passenger vessels, chemical tankers, bulk carriers, etc.

The presence of its own design and design services allows the Baltic Plant to offer a number of promising projects of its own development on the market. These are large-capacity tankers for transporting liquefied gas, multifunctional icebreaker supply vessels, nuclear and diesel floating power units, offshore technical support vessels, floating desalination complexes.

The company produces a wide range of marine power and mechanical engineering products, both for equipping ships and ships of its own construction, and for deliveries to other shipbuilding enterprises. The plant manufactures heat exchange equipment for nuclear power plants, is a supplier of colored and steel casting.

The quality management system of the Baltic Plant is certified for compliance with International Standards. The company has certificates from leading classification societies - Bureau Veritas Quality International, the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, the German Lloyd and others.

The company's entry into the global shipbuilding market stimulated the comprehensive modernization of production. In 2003-2004, the plant put into commercial operation a new hull processing workshop, which allows processing up to 60 thousand tons of metal per year. Today, the Baltic Plant is a modern enterprise competing in the market not only with domestic, but also with leading world shipyards.

The plant is developing promising areas of activity and developing new technologies, invariably following the trends of the global shipbuilding market. The company is one of the first in Russia to introduce CALS technologies - a system for creating an electronic model of a ship that allows continuous information support of its life cycle.

The Baltic Plant is advantageously located in the western part of St. Petersburg, on Vasilievsky Island, at the mouth of the Bolshaya Neva River. The company covers an area of ​ ​ more than 650 thousand square meters. For the construction of ships, the company has three built-in places - two slipways and an indoor boathouse. The largest slipway in Russia with a length of 350 meters allows the company to build ships with a deadweight of up to 100,000 tons.

History

2024: Allocation by the Government of the Russian Federation of 22 billion rubles for the construction of three icebreakers

The Russian government will allocate 22 billion rubles to Baltic Plant JSC (part of USC JSC). This was announced on April 3, 2024 by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, speaking with a report in the State Duma.

The funds will go to the construction of serial icebreakers of project 22220. The project includes the Leningrad icebreaker, which was laid on January 26, 2024, the Chukotka icebreaker, laid down in December 2020, and Yakutia (the bookmark took place in May 2020). During the laying of the Leningrad icebreaker, Vladimir Putin announced the construction of another icebreaker, called Stalingrad.

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Three universal nuclear icebreakers are being built at the Baltic Plant in St. Petersburg, you know about this, in March we decided to allocate almost 22 billion rubles so that such work could continue, Mishustin said.

Project 22220 nuclear icebreakers have a capacity of 60 MW and are the largest and most powerful vessels of this type in the world. The length of icebreakers reaches 173.3 meters, width - 34 meters. The displacement of the ship is 33.5 thousand tons. Icebreakers are able to conduct caravans of ships in Arctic conditions, breaking through ice up to 3 meters thick. It is planned that the vessels of project 22220 will provide the passage of vessels with hydrocarbon raw materials from the fields of the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas, as well as from the Kara Sea shelf.

Project 22220 icebreakers are designed to conduct ships in the Arctic in the sections of the Yenisei and Ob Bay. In addition, they are able to tow ships and other floating structures in ice and on clean water. The project has been implemented since 2013, during which time the icebreakers Arktika (lead), Sibir and Ural were built. They are part of the Russian nuclear icebreaker fleet.^[1]

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See also

• Icebreakers of Russia (Atomic Shipbuilding)