Management from Russian shipowner SCF Group (Sovcomflot) has been meeting with South Korean shipbuilders as the firm prepares to take delivery of its third icebreaking Arctic shuttle tanker and inches forward with a long-running newbuilding project.

Company president and chief executive Sergey Frank headed a delegation to Samsung Heavy Industries for the naming of the ice-class Arc7 42,000-dwt tanker newbuilding Shturman Ovtsyn.

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