A new breed of ice-breaking LNG carrier designed to spend more time in ice and geared for year-round operations will start moving through the Northern Sea Route (NSR) by mid-2023.
This new Arc7 fleet will be largely controlled by a Sovcomflot-Novatek joint venture — Smart LNG — and its chairman Sergey Frank, a former Sovcomflot (SCF Group) chief executive who is now non-executive chairman.
