Patent ID: 7117808

Claim:
A complex for transferring a liquid cargo to a tanker, comprising an offshore mooring berth with anchors, a transferring underwater pipeline with a manifold to which a flexible hose is connected for connecting the tanker with the underwater pipeline, a lifting device with a cable, a service well installed with the possibility of passing the cable of the said lifting device through it and with the possibility of access to its upper part, characterized in that the complex is equipped with an ice-breaker moored to the offshore berth, to the stern of which the tanker is moored with her fore directly or at a distance, a service boat installed on the stern side of the latter, and arranged in the ice-breaker's afterdeck a device for the protection of the pipeline flexible hose against ice action, a handling device for transferring the flexible hose from the ice-breaker to the tanker, and a diving well and a diving station, the said service well being arranged in the hull of the ice-breaker's stern side, the said device for the protection of the flexible hose being made in the form of a cylinder provided with guides for the possibility of moving inside the said service well and which lower edge in the operation position being arranged lower than the base of floating ice.