The vessel is to be operate in the ports along the Northern Sea Route. In October the tug passed the last sea acceptance tests thus confirming the workability of all its systems and equipment, the Marine Rescue Service reports.

“Now it is awaiting the ship’s documents to be issued and then the flag-raising and activation ceremony. The tug will work in the waters of northern ports and on the Northern Sea Route. Arkhangelsk will be its home port,” said Arkhangelsk Region Governor Alexander Tsybulsky.

The salvage tug has been built by the Okskaya Shipyard as part of the plan to develop the infrastructure of the Northern Sea Route until 2035 and the Northern Sea Route federal project. It is named after the mountain Favor on the Solovetsky Islands.

Favor is the fifth vessel in the series of salvage tugs built under the NE025 project. Its four predecessors have already been accepted by the Marine Rescue Service fleet and are stationed at Murmansk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.