OREANDA-NEWS. Sovcomflot Group recently participated in Transport Week 2014, Russia's largest annual forum for the transport industry.

Sovcomflot is traditionally the general sponsor of Transport Week, an event organised by the Russian Ministry of Transport in order for transport businesses to discuss the sector's most pressing issues with representatives of the government. Each year more than 3,000 professionals attend the exhibition and forum. This year the event agenda focussed on issues of developing Russia's transport infrastructure, and the introduction and safety of the latest transport technologies.

Sovcomflot Group's stand was visited by several extremely high-profile guests: the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, the Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of the government's naval council Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, Minister for Transport Maxim Sokolov, and others.

Sovcomflot's general director Sergey Frank introduced these guests to the projects being presented by the company at the exhibition - modern and technologically complex vessels constructed by Russian ship-builders.

One of these vessels is the Arctic shuttle tanker Mikhail Ulyanov, which has been put into operation on the Prirazlomnoye project in the Pechora Sea. This unique and reinforced ice class ship was built for Sovcomflot at St. Petersburg's Admiralty Shipyards.

Another of the Group's technologically advanced projects is its series of Vitus Bering multi-purpose icebreaking platform supply vessels, built by enterprises of the United Shipbuilding Corporation. Two of these vessels are operating on the Sakhalin-1 project in the Sea of Okhotsk, and three more such ships have been ordered for the continuation of this successful project, as well as a support vessel with a similar construction.

During Transport Week 2014 the Director of the SCF Training Centre Igor Pankov participated in the discussion "Science, education, business - partnerships and development in offshore zones", in which he spoke about Sovcomflot's system for training its naval crews, and about the company's cooperation with Russia's leading maritime institutes.