Norilsk Nickel arctic tanker passes sea trials

OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel, informs that ice-class ARC7 Yenisey tanker passed through sea trials in Wismar (Germany) last week. The trials made it possible to test the performance of vessel’s devices and equipment. The tanker is being built as part of the Company’s own arctic fleet development.

According to Sergey Buzov, Deputy General Director of the Company and Head of Transport and Logistics Department, the trials were predictably successful. MMC Norilsk Nickel’s Fleet Construction Surveillance Team shall use the trials’ results to analyze the correspondence of actual indicators to contract indicators. On Monday, August 29, the tanker shall proceed to Norwegian shores, where the Bollard Pull test is to take place.

The tanker shall be finished and commissioned in the end of third quarter, 2011.

ABOUT MMC NORILSK NICKEL:
MMC Norilsk Nickel, a company incorporated under the laws of the Russian Federation, is the largest diversified mining and metals company in Russia, the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium and one of the world's largest producers of platinum, rhodium, copper and cobalt. In addition to this, MMC Norilsk Nickel produces a large number of other by-products, including gold, silver, tellurium, selenium, iridium and ruthenium.
The key production units of the Company’s group in Russia are at the Polar and Kola Peninsulas. MMC Norilsk Nickel international assets include operations in Finland, Australia, Botswana and South Africa.
MMC Norilsk Nickel’s shares are traded at MICEX and RTS. ADRs on the Company’s shares are traded at over the counter market in the US and at the London and Berlin stock exchanges.