OREANDA-NEWS. September 09, 2010. Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rosmorport announced an open bidding for a state contract worth some 7.87bn rubles (about USD 254,832m) for building a linear diesel icebreaker of rated capacity of 25 MW, Rosmorport press release said. The tender results will be announced by the end of October 2010.

Earlier reports said Rosmorport had projected to build a series of three diesel-electric-powered icebreakers of 25MW capacity until 2015.

Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rosmorport is one of the largest infrastructure companies in Russia. The company’s 4.600 employees work for Rosmorport’s branches in 16 Russian regions. The state-run enterprise operates in the Russian ports and manages the world's largest icebreaker fleet.