In October 2018, the Russian Federal Agency for Fishery (Rosrybolovstvo), Rosatom and various Russian fishing industry organizations began discussing the possibility of transporting Pacific salmon caught in Kamchatka to western Russia along the Northern Sea Route using "Sevmorput". Initially, two test shipments of 5,000tonnes of frozen fish from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Saint Petersburg were planned for 2019, but the second voyage was later cancelled after the first voyage turned out to be less profitable then expected. While Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers had occasionally operated in the Gulf of Finland, "Sevmorput"s pilot voyage in September 2019 marked the first time commercial cargo was carried to the Baltic Sea onboard a Russian nuclear-powered vessel. While the vessel later returned to Murmansk, the sinking of the only Russian floating dock capable of accommodating the vessel in November 2018 forced "Sevmorput" to sail back to Saint Petersburg for propeller repairs in December 2019.