Weekly News Week 2 (9 to 11 January)

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Moscow River Shipping Company put into service the second tanker Pavel Yudin of Type RST25 (sea/river deadweight to be 6 710/5 229 tons) with higher environmental standard. The shipbuilder is Nobel Brothers Shipyard (Managing Director is Dmitry Bystrov). Type RST25 ship is intended for mixed (river-sea) and sea transportation of crude oil and oil products in bulk, including petrol, without restriction by flash temperature, to provide shipping at 50°C.

As per the State Armament Programme 2013, the Caspian Fleet will include five surface ships and boats as well as two auxiliary ships. In summer, Gorky Zelenodolsk Shipbuilding Plant will provide two new small missile ships (Uglich and Grad Sviyazhsk). The plant also buils a high-speed manoeuvreable bark anti-saboteur boat Grachonok. In addition, in spring, Volga Shipyard, Nizhny Novgorod, will deliver three air-cavern landing boats (Type Serna) to the Caspian Fleet. Apart from warships, auxiliary ships are being renewed. Various shipbuilding plants will provide one floating crane, one harbour tug and two sea tugs. In 2013, the Fleet will receive a floating crane (Type 20360). For the search and rescue activity, the Astrakhan branch of Zvezdochka Shiprepair Centre is being built a rescue and salvage ship (Type 22870).

For the next three years, by 2016, the Russian Navy will include about 80 inshore supply vessels of various classes. They are tug inshore vessels of various purpose, inshore diving boats, general-purpose rescue platforms (module type) and floating cranes. Thus, the modern basing system of the Russian Navy will include self-sufficient and modern vessels providing a safe mooring of ships and submarines.

Burevestnik Central Research Institute in Nizhny Novgorod shipped the first production sample of the Universal gun mount А190-01, an advanced automatic 100-mm shipborne gunnery, for Gorky Zelenodolsk Shipbuilding Plant. It is designed for the equipment of Grad Sviyazhsk small missile ship. The firing rate is 80 rounds per minute. It can hit targets at more than 20 km within the angular range of minus 10 to 85 degrees by elevation and plus-minus 170 degrees by training.

Motovilikha Plants will equip the Russian Navy with a new gun mount. The Universal shipborne gun mount manufactured by Motovilikha Plants passed the state trials, as reports Kommersant. The gun mount having a code name A190-01KCh, is a single-barreled turret-type 100-calibre mount, with a range of fire over 20 km. The gun mount may be used against all kinds of enemy interference. It is designed to be installed on board ships with displacement of over 500 tons.

The Russian government approved the rules on keeping detained and arrested ships and providing a safe mooring for them. The Ministry of Transport was to assign anchorage areas for such ships in the Russian seaports within three months, reports Nord-News news agency. This measure is required because almost all the berths in the Russian seaports are in long-term lease of commercial organisations. Administrations of seaports may not make these companies supply the detained or arrested ships to the berth and arrange keeping of such ships.

The Russian government agreed on selling the state share of Vanino trade seaport: the prime minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order according to which the Customer was the Mechel-Trans Company, reports SakhaNews news agency. The share package of 73.33 per cent was obtained by Igor Zyuzin's organisation at the auction on 7 December 2012 for 15.5 billion roubles. The main candidate for the state share package was considered En+ Group of Oleg Deripaska, a minority shareholder of the port, who owns 21.64 per cent of Vanino common shares.

The Arkhangelsk branch of Rosmorport at the beginning of winter navigation offered ice pilotage services to shipowners for safe pilotage in the White Sea ice. Experts are selected from the best-trained pilots of the Pilotage Service of the Arkhangelsk branch, experienced in navigation in the White Sea ice conditions. The service is provided on a contractual basis in accordance with the Pilotage Regulations for ice conditions of the Arkhangelsk branch of Rosmorport State Corporation. An ice pilot's duties are giving recommendations, therefore, the captain remains responsible for steering.



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