sentences:  The Murmansk Shipping Company (MMP or MSCO) () has been providing icebreakers to support ships transporting supplies and nickel with a market value of $11.35 per tonne of nickel.Three submarines, which would be needed for the project to be feasible, would be undergoing refit and overhaul between 2000 and 2003.However, no agreement could be reached over who would perform the refit and overhaul of the submarines, nor who would own and control the submarines (Defense, MMP, or Nornickel), nor who would pay for the cost of the overhaul and refit which Anatoly Gorshkovsky, the head of the Northern Sea Route administration in the Russian Ministry of Transport, suggested to Interfax that the state (either a Russian Federal Ministry or Defense), MMP, and Nornickel should all contribute funds.