OREANDA-NEWS. August 27, 2008. Murmansk Sea Shipping Company OJSC and Atomflot FSUE (Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation) signed an act of competition of procedures for transferring ships with nuclear reactors and nuclear service ships from the trust management of Murmansk Sea Shipping Company into the economic management of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation.

Aug 27 was the last day of the trust management agreement signed by the Government of the Russian Federation and Murmansk Sea Shipping Company in 1998. Now this property has been given to Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation as a federal structure authorized to develop Russia’s nuclear industry.

In Mar 2008 Atomflot FSUE, a company repairing and maintaining nuclear icebreakers, passed from the Federal Sea and River Transport Agency of the Ministry of Transport of Russia into the ownership of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation.

Atomflot is supposed to be a transport-technological complex for operating nuclear icebreakers for the sake of the social-economic development of the Far North, Siberia and the Far East. Atomflot’s icebreakers will navigate in the Arctic seas and by the Northern Sea Route.

They will pave the way for transport ships, will provide support to scientific expeditions and will implement other tasks related to human activity in the hard climatic conditions of the Arctic reaction.

The reorganization of the nuclear icebreakers management system and its transfer into the ownership of Rosatom is supposed to help Russia to effectively develop its northern regions.