Secondly, although I haven't asked about the costs, you would have to assume a nuclear cargo ship would have to carry some high value cargo to pay the freight, so to speak.
Last March the ship was carrying construction materials and equipment from Archangel to Novatek's LNG 2 project off the Ob river and we were going to do a post on this oddball ship and its five day trip.
That at least made sense: high-value cargo short distance, entirely within Russian waters.
Here's the latest from Fish Information & Services:
Norebo Group to launch nuclear-powered fish shipping around Scandinavia
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Thursday, August 29, 2019, 00:00 (GMT + 9)
Russia's 30-year-old nuclear-powered Sevmorput container
carrier will soon transport 5,000 tons of fish from the country's Far
East to St. Petersburg via the Northern Sea Route.
“This test voyage with the container carrier gives hope that someday such deliveries will become regular,” the Kamchatka region governor Vladimir Kuzmitsky has said in an interview with the region’s official news 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.
Photo: Courtesy The Barents Ovserver
This is the first time that a Russian civilian nuclear-powered ship will sail with cargo outside the coast of Norway. From the North Sea, the Sevmorput will continue sailing through the narrow waters between Sweden and Denmark through the Great Belt and into the Baltic Sea before its final port call at St. Petersburg.
Russia's state nuclear energy corporation 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 then sail back on the same route and embark on a second voyage in late October.
Seafood shipping from Russia’s Pacific region to St. Petersburg via the Arctic is being made in cooperation between authorities in the Kamchatka region, Norebo Group, Rosatom and the Ministry for Development of the Far East and the Arctic.
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Denmark's CPH Post notes: "Russia dispatching nuclear-powered ship through Danish waters"
