They laid a keel of a new river-sea chemical tanker named the MIDVOLGA-2 (6200 t capacity). The information source is the press-office of Mid-Volga Shipping Company. The tanker is planned to be handed over and put into operation in November 2014. The construction contract for two multipurpose chemical tankers was signed under the fleet renovation programme adopted a few years ago. In addition to the construction of five new multipurpose tankers, the contract provides for modernisation/renovation of the tankers in use.
Pella Leningrad Shipyard launched a tugboat of Type PE-65 (serial No. 505), construction programme 2014. Within the year, the vessel will be delivered to the state customer, the Russian Navy. Then it will be included into the Northern Fleet of Russia.
Specifications:
- LOA: 34.4 m
- BOA: 12.1 m
- Draught: 4.4 m
- Speed: 13.5 kn
- Drawbar force: 63 t
- Class notation: KM Arc4 R1 Аut1 FF3WS EscortTug (classified by the Russian Maritime Registry of Shipping)
- Propulsion system: US 255 FP steerable rudder propeller unit by Rolls-Royce, shrouded fixed blade propeller
- Power: 2 х 1864 kW, 1600 rpm, Cat 3516B
- Displacement, full-load: 860 t
During 2014, the Russian Navy will get more than forty new surface ships and submarines. Of great importance will be developing the basing infrastructure depending on the new ships delivered. It concerns mainly submarine bases of the Northern Fleet, Gadzhievo; the Pacific Fleet, Vilyuchinsk; the Black Sea Fleet, Novorossiysk. In 2014, the Russian Navy is expected to accept frigates of Type 11356, small missile ships of Type 21631, counter-terror boats of Type 21980 and the Igor Belousov rescue vessel. Shipbuilding companies plan to lay keels of several new support ships, including the icebreaker of Type 21180 and the self-propelled floating crane of Type 02690.
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