2. Slide 1 RUSSIAN TRANSPORT CORRIDOR “NORTHERN SEA ROUTE” within the system of international transport corridors West-East-West

3. Nuclear icebreaker “Rossia” carries out the close towing of ship in the Kara Sea Slide 2

4. Slide 3 Nuclear icebreaker “50 Let Pobedy” constructed in 2007

5. Slide 4 Traffic development along the NSR

6. Slide 5 Design of the nuclear universal double-draft ЛК-60Я type icebreaker with a power of 60 MW – building is to be completed in 2015

7. Slide 6 Dynamics of the composition of nuclear icebreakers for the period up to 2020 bearing in mind the development of cargo basis for the NSR

8. Slide 7 Tanker “Vassiliy Dinkov” with a deadweight of 70 000 t built in 2007

9. Slide 8 Icebreaking 20 MW supply vessel “Yuri Topchev” built in 2007

10. Arctic container ship «Norilskiy Nickel» during ice trials March 2006 Slide 9

11. “Light" type ice conditions Slide 10 Duration of the transit transportation of containers between ports of Yokohama and Hamburg along the NSR and by the southern route through the Suez Canal 1 - under the escort of ЛК-60Я icebreaker; 2 - under the escort of nuclear icebreaker “50 Let Pobedy”; 3 - independently along the NSR; 4 - by the southern route through the Suez Canal “Medium" type ice conditions

12. Slide 11 1- with “medium” type ice conditions; 2- with “light” type ice conditions; 3- by the southern route through the Suez Canal Cost price of the transportation of containers between ports of Yokohama and Hamburg along the NSR and by the southern route through the Suez Canal

13. Zones of the reception of information on the safety of navigation in SafetyNET and NAVTEX systems Slide 12 Symbols: Arctic branches of the Hydrographic Enterprise Traditional seaways of the Northern Sea Route approximate coverage of the Indian Ocean satellite SafetyNET IOR approximate coverage of the Pacific Ocean satellite SafetyNET POR Tiksi – established stations Navtex (coverage – 350 miles) Andreya Island – planned stations Navtex (coverage – 350 miles)

14. Slide 13 Submarine topography of the Northern Sea Route