Gulf of Ob
In July 2014, Samsung Heavy Industries received a $440 million order for three ice class Arc7 shuttle tankers for the Russian shipping company Sovcomflot. A follow-up order for the construction of three more tankers of similar design to an unnamed European shipping company at the same price was announced in October 2014. The 42,000 DWT tankers, capable of breaking ice with a thickness of at , will be used to transport crude oil from the Novy Port oil fields in the Gulf of Ob to the ice-free port of Murmansk. The first vessel of the series, "Shturman Albanov", was launched in early 2016.