On 17 July the Nevskiy Shipbuilding and Shiprepair Yard launched the Neva-Leader 6, the sixth of ten RSD49 self-propelled dry cargo vessels built for the North-West Shipping Company. The vessel was designed by the St. Petersburg Marine Engineering Bureau.
According to classification adopted by the Marine Engineering Bureau, the RSD49 vessels belong to the Volga-Don Max class, i.e. have maximum displacement and dimensions still suitable to pass Volga-Don Canal.
Main particulars:
- LOA 139.95 m
- BOA 16.7 m
- Depth 6.0 m
- River deadweight (3.6 m draught) 4,520 t
- Sea deadweight (4.7 m draught) 7,150 t
- Cargo hold capacity 10,920 m3
- Propulsion 2,400 kW
- Operational speed 11.5 knots
- Classed by the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping as КМ Ice2 R2 AUT1-C.
Sovkomflot and ING Bank N.V. have signed a USD 75M loan agreement for 10 years. The loan will be used for construction of two new SIBUR Voronezh type LPG tankers at the shipyard of Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Сo. Ltd. According to Sovkomflot, their new tankers will be involved in round-the-year LPG transportation from the oil terminal in the Ust-Luga seaport under the long-term contracts of SIBUR, the Russian petrochemical holding.
ING Bank is acting as the only authorized organizer of the transaction that features long-term repayment conditions favorable for the loaner. Competitive loan cost reflects reliability and stability of transaction structure, as well as the high credibility of the Russian freighter, SIBUR. The tankers named SIBUR Voronezh and SIBUR Tobol will be owned by SCF Gas Carriers Ltd., the holding of the Sovkomflot group.
The Atomflot will not operate the nuclear-powered icebreaker Rossia anymore. The nuclear fuel will be unloaded from the ship by September. The icebreaker has been operating in Arctic for 28 years. Disposal decision was taken after the experts doubted future safe operation of the nuclear propulsion system of the ship.
Once the fuel is removed, the icebreaker will be moored at the company’s wharf already occupied by Arktika and Sibir nuclear ships. Their disposal plans have been drafted; now necessary approvals are being obtained.
A new border checkpoint for small-size, pleasure and sporting sail boats opened in the Fort Konstantin of Kronstadt, according to St. Petersburg Governor’s press office, Up to now yachtsmen had to pass the border and customs control at the Passenger Ship Terminal spending a lot of time. Now all the clearance takes 30 minutes only. At the same time up to 15 vessels can pass the border and customs control here. The project was funded by the Tretiy Park; this transportation company arranged necessary infrastructure and handed it over for free to the Russian State Border Agency.
On 15 July the Russian Government approved a 65,640,000 ruble allotment from the Governmental Reserve Fund to the Rosgidromet’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in 2013. The money is needed for an off-schedule icebreaking voyage to evacuate the North Pole – 40 drifting research station.
The ice block hosting the station broke in the May this year and necessitated emergency evacuation of the personnel and equipment; thereafter a temporary shore base at the Baranov cape (the Bolshevik Island, Severnaya Zemlya) was established.
The icebreaking evacuation (involving lease of Atomflot’s Yamal nuclear-powered icebreaker) in heavy ice is now evaluated to require at least 33 days, which is 17 days beyond the earlier evaluation, and extra funding.
Lenin, the first in the world nuclear-powered icebreaker has left her berth at the Murmansk passenger terminal, according to Rosatomflot’s Press office. The ship is going to repair. The nuclear firstling will spend 40 to 45 days in the floating dock. The docking is mainly necessitated by in-dock inspections to be conducted by the Russian Register.
The icebreaker undergoes such examination every 10 years. During her stay in the floating dock, the ship will have her underwater hull blasted and repainted, shell thickness tested, hull structures examined, outboard fittings repaired, etc. Finally Lenin will be surveyed by the Russian Register for class maintenance.
Besides, the icebreaker will be formally assigned a museum ship status, and her class notation will be revised accordingly, i.e. supplemented with MUSEUM wording.
Russia and Italia will improve design of the future conventional submarine S-1000 for the third countries. This was intimated by Rosoboronexport to ARMS-TASS journalist. The Rubin Central Marine Design Bureau will participate from the Russian side.
By now the submarine architecture, equipment arrangement, and integrated combat system are defined. The marketing evaluations were carried out, thereupon S-1000’s performance and main particulars were specified: length = 56.2 m, inner hull OD = 5.5 m, underwater displacement = abt. 1,100 tons, max depth ≥ 250 m, underwater speed ≥ 14 knots. The submarine will have an Italian air-independent propulsion plant.
The Admiralty Shipyard is about to resume construction of the Kronstadt submarine. The governmental contract was signed by Yuriy Borisov, deputy minister of defense and Alexander Buzakov, CEO of the Admiralty Shipyard and became effective on 9 July 2013, according to shipyard’s press office.
The submarine was laid in July 2005. However, in 2009 the Russian MoD suspended construction until operational testing of Saint-Petersburg, the lead submarine in the series.
The Rubin Central Marine Design Bureau, designer of the Lada type submarines, has vastly improved the submarine and her equipment. The second sub in the series will bear these upgraded equipments, namely machinery control system, electric propulsion, and navigation aids.
Main particulars:
- LOA 139.95 m
- BOA 16.7 m
- Depth 6.0 m
- River deadweight (3.6 m draught) 4,520 t
- Sea deadweight (4.7 m draught) 7,150 t
- Cargo hold capacity 10,920 m3
- Propulsion 2,400 kW
- Operational speed 11.5 knots
- Classed by the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping as КМ Ice2 R2 AUT1-C.
Sovkomflot and ING Bank N.V. have signed a USD 75M loan agreement for 10 years. The loan will be used for construction of two new SIBUR Voronezh type LPG tankers at the shipyard of Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Сo. Ltd. According to Sovkomflot, their new tankers will be involved in round-the-year LPG transportation from the oil terminal in the Ust-Luga seaport under the long-term contracts of SIBUR, the Russian petrochemical holding.
ING Bank is acting as the only authorized organizer of the transaction that features long-term repayment conditions favorable for the loaner. Competitive loan cost reflects reliability and stability of transaction structure, as well as the high credibility of the Russian freighter, SIBUR. The tankers named SIBUR Voronezh and SIBUR Tobol will be owned by SCF Gas Carriers Ltd., the holding of the Sovkomflot group.
The Atomflot will not operate the nuclear-powered icebreaker Rossia anymore. The nuclear fuel will be unloaded from the ship by September. The icebreaker has been operating in Arctic for 28 years. Disposal decision was taken after the experts doubted future safe operation of the nuclear propulsion system of the ship.
Once the fuel is removed, the icebreaker will be moored at the company’s wharf already occupied by Arktika and Sibir nuclear ships. Their disposal plans have been drafted; now necessary approvals are being obtained.
A new border checkpoint for small-size, pleasure and sporting sail boats opened in the Fort Konstantin of Kronstadt, according to St. Petersburg Governor’s press office, Up to now yachtsmen had to pass the border and customs control at the Passenger Ship Terminal spending a lot of time. Now all the clearance takes 30 minutes only. At the same time up to 15 vessels can pass the border and customs control here. The project was funded by the Tretiy Park; this transportation company arranged necessary infrastructure and handed it over for free to the Russian State Border Agency.
On 15 July the Russian Government approved a 65,640,000 ruble allotment from the Governmental Reserve Fund to the Rosgidromet’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in 2013. The money is needed for an off-schedule icebreaking voyage to evacuate the North Pole – 40 drifting research station.
The ice block hosting the station broke in the May this year and necessitated emergency evacuation of the personnel and equipment; thereafter a temporary shore base at the Baranov cape (the Bolshevik Island, Severnaya Zemlya) was established.
The icebreaking evacuation (involving lease of Atomflot’s Yamal nuclear-powered icebreaker) in heavy ice is now evaluated to require at least 33 days, which is 17 days beyond the earlier evaluation, and extra funding.
Lenin, the first in the world nuclear-powered icebreaker has left her berth at the Murmansk passenger terminal, according to Rosatomflot’s Press office. The ship is going to repair. The nuclear firstling will spend 40 to 45 days in the floating dock. The docking is mainly necessitated by in-dock inspections to be conducted by the Russian Register.
The icebreaker undergoes such examination every 10 years. During her stay in the floating dock, the ship will have her underwater hull blasted and repainted, shell thickness tested, hull structures examined, outboard fittings repaired, etc. Finally Lenin will be surveyed by the Russian Register for class maintenance.
Besides, the icebreaker will be formally assigned a museum ship status, and her class notation will be revised accordingly, i.e. supplemented with MUSEUM wording.
Russia and Italia will improve design of the future conventional submarine S-1000 for the third countries. This was intimated by Rosoboronexport to ARMS-TASS journalist. The Rubin Central Marine Design Bureau will participate from the Russian side.
By now the submarine architecture, equipment arrangement, and integrated combat system are defined. The marketing evaluations were carried out, thereupon S-1000’s performance and main particulars were specified: length = 56.2 m, inner hull OD = 5.5 m, underwater displacement = abt. 1,100 tons, max depth ≥ 250 m, underwater speed ≥ 14 knots. The submarine will have an Italian air-independent propulsion plant.
The Admiralty Shipyard is about to resume construction of the Kronstadt submarine. The governmental contract was signed by Yuriy Borisov, deputy minister of defense and Alexander Buzakov, CEO of the Admiralty Shipyard and became effective on 9 July 2013, according to shipyard’s press office.
The submarine was laid in July 2005. However, in 2009 the Russian MoD suspended construction until operational testing of Saint-Petersburg, the lead submarine in the series.
The Rubin Central Marine Design Bureau, designer of the Lada type submarines, has vastly improved the submarine and her equipment. The second sub in the series will bear these upgraded equipments, namely machinery control system, electric propulsion, and navigation aids.
