{"id":18040,"date":"2026-08-14T11:01:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=18040"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:01:54","slug":"russias-second-new-ice-class-lng-carrier-heads-via-northern-sea-route-lseg-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/18040\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s second new ice-class LNG carrier heads via Northern Sea Route, LSEG data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0Russia&#8217;s second new domestically-built ice-class carrier for transporting liquefied natural gas, the Konstantin Posiet, departed from Bolshoy Kamen Bay in Primorsky \u200cKrai and set a course along the Northern Sea Route, LSEG data showed on Friday.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\" data-reader-unique-id=\"18\">For Russia, the tanker represents another step in overcoming Western sanctions designed to prevent it from moving gas to international \u2060markets and to curb its revenues for waging war on Ukraine.<\/div>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"35\">The vessel was built at the Zvezda shipyard, one of Russia&#8217;s most advanced shipbuilding facilities, to serve the Arctic LNG 2 plant, which is subject to U.S. sanctions.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"36\">According to LSEG data, the tanker Konstantin Posiet is expected to arrive at its destination on \u200cAugust \u206030. The destination of the gas carrier has not been specified.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"37\">Zvezda specialises in building large Arc7 ice-class tankers capable of breaking through ice up to two metres (6.5 ft) thick.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"45\">The \u2060shipyard was meant to build 15 tankers for Russia&#8217;s Arctic LNG-2 project, but sanctions have caused delays.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-6\" data-reader-unique-id=\"46\">The first Russian-built ice-class \u2060tanker for liquefied natural gas from Zvezda shipyard Alexey Kosygin entered service last December.<\/div>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"48\">The latest vessel means it \u2060has a total of three ice-class tankers that allow the gas to be shipped via a much shorter route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s second new domestically-built ice-class carrier for transporting liquefied natural gas, the Konstantin Posiet, departed from Bolshoy Kamen Bay in Primorsky \u200cKrai and set a course along the Northern Sea Route, LSEG data showed on Friday.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,20,46,36,19,43],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-18040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-gas","category-international","category-lastnews","category-news","category-south-pars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18042,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040\/revisions\/18042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18040"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=18040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}