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Russia starts nuclear-powered fish transport around Scandinavia  Container carrier “Sevmorput” is now being loaded with 200 refrigerated containers with fish at port in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy and will soon set sail for the Northern Sea Route and further south to St. Petersburg. 

“This test-voyage with the container carrier gives hope that one time such deliveries will become regular,” says Kamchatka Governor Vladmir Kuzmitsky in an interview with the region’s own portal.The 200 containers are filled with frozen fish, fillets, caviar and other seafood, a total of 5,000 tons.

The voyage takes three weeks, of which the two first will be along the Northern Sea Route, north of Siberia.

This is the first time a Russian civilian nuclear-powered ship sails with cargo outside the coast of Norway. From the North Sea, “Sevmorput” will continue in the narrow waters between Sweden and Denmark, sailing through the Great Belt and into the Baltic Sea before final port call to St. Petersburg.

Rosatom confirmed the voyage in a tweet on Monday.

“Sevmorput” is expected to cross the Barents Sea and sail outside Norway by the second week of September.

Then, the ship will sail back the same route and a second voyage will come in late October……. https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2019/08/russia-starts-nuclear-powered-fish-transport-around-scandinavia