Given the huge industrial development projects now taking place in northern Russia, the Hamburg-based Hansa Heavy Lift, heavylift specialist is now eyeing transits along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) more often. The HHL New York and HHL Amazon, which both hold Ice Class E3 equivalent to Russian Arc.4 (Finnish-Swedish Ice Class 1A), successfully completed voyages along the western boundary of the NSR in late 2015, delivering the heat exchanger for an LNG plant as well as other power generation equipment.
