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Russia's icebreaker fleet brings in $5 mln in 2005

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MURMANSK (northern Russia) February 1 (RIA Novosti, Yekaterina Kozlova) - Russia's icebreaker fleet brought the country about 140 million rubles ($5 million) in revenues in 2005, roughly unchanged from the previous year, the shipping company that runs the fleet said Wednesday.

The Murmansk Sea Shipping company, based at the ice-free Barents Sea port of Murmansk, said that it had transferred 139 million rubles to the federal budget in 2004, and about 184 million rubles in 2003.

The company said it had fulfilled all its icebreaker assistance obligations along the Northern Sea Route and in the White Sea in full.

Apart from operations along the Northern Sea Route - a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along Russia's Siberian coast, the majority of which lies in Arctic waters - the nuclear-powered vessel Arktika also created a path for Russia's Akademik Fedorov research ship in the Arctic, and helped move the SP-33 research station on a floating ice shelf to a different location.

Russian icebreakers also delivered 1.8 million metric tons of freight last year, 18% more than in 2004, according to the shipping company.

Icebreakers were also used to provide Russia's remote regions in Siberia and the Far East with supplies, including 100,000 metric tons of oil products.

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