The crew of the Russian Choron ship being repaired in the Turkish port of Yalova appealed for help to the Seafarers' Union of Russia. The crew consisting of Primorians has already been for several months on board the Choron without salary, reported the Deputy Chairman of the Seafarers' Union of Russia Nikolai Sukhanov to PrimaMedia . The Choron ship has been repaired for almost several months in the port of Yalova near Istanbul. In November, the ship crew was changed, and the sailors were short in payments for the month of work. A new crew did not earn a salary for two months too. The employer's debt to the sailors reached 15 thousand dollars.
The Baltic Sea is threatened by environmental disaster due to the dumping at its bottom up to 50 thousand tons of chemical substances since the Second World War. If not to immediately remove them, this can lead to contamination of the water area of the sea, said the Chairman of the International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions Mr. Terrence P. Long at the conference in Warsaw. It is reported that in some areas the accumulation of weapons is so great that one bomb explosion can lead to detonation of all the dumped munitions.
Far Eastern transport police received five new high-speed patrol boats, with a total value of 32.5 million roubles, reported Vostok-Media in the press office of the Transport Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Far East Federal District. The ships are intended for patrol, inspection, rescue and other investigation and search operations in navigation areas of rivers and seas. The equipment of the patrol police boats meets the up-to-date requirements of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia with the strategy to create viable and well-equipped transport police. The ships will sail in Khabarovsk, Nakhodka, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Sakhalin island, where the growth of illegal production of aquatic biological resources is an urgent issue.
The Ministry of Transport of Russia proposed to let foreign tourists sail to the country by yachts and pleasure boats without visas. The only restriction is arriving to Russia for a short period up to 72 hours. Now this entry regime exists only for the tourists arriving to Russia by specialised cruise vessels and ferries that have permission for passenger transportation. The law is aimed to create more favourable conditions for increasing the flow of tourists in the most attractive regions of the country to promote the infrastructure development.
The Russian fleet raised its flag on the new nuclear submarine designed to form a key part of the future nuclear means of deterrence. The Yury Dolgoruky submarine, which carries sixteen Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles, is the first of the new submarines (Type 955 Borey), which will replace the soviet vessels. Another submarine of the same type is currently being tested, and other two are under construction, reports Political Education news agency. Commissioning of new submarines is part of the ambitious programme for arms modernisation, which provides 20 trillion roubles for new arms till 2020.
Two thirds of profit of Russian Shipyards were provided by the naval shipbuilders, reports Lenta.ru. In 2012, Russia constructed the civil ships for 50.5 billion roubles, and the volume of orders in the naval shipbuilding was 92.1 billion. Thus, the naval shipbuilding spent almost two thirds of the Russian Shipyards profit. Since 2013, Russia will begin the programme of developing the civil shipbuilding, which will require investments of more than 600 billion roubles till 2030. The state budget will assign 337.9 billion roubles, of which 51.8 billion roubles are supposed to spend in 2013 to 2015.
Yantar Shipyard, Kaliningrad completes the harbour acceptance trials of the third frigate (Type 1135.6) constructed for the Indian Navy, and starts preparation for sea acceptance trials, reports the Military Industrial Complex. After a while, when degaussing is finished, the shipyard will officially start sea acceptance trials. However, preparatory operations are being made as early as today. Sea acceptance trials of the Trikand frigate will be conducted in two stages. The first stage will be at the shipyard and the second one at the Baltic Sea. Handing over the ship to the Indian Navy is planned for the summer of 2013.
The faulty diesel-generator of large landing ship (Black Sea Fleet) in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea will be repaired by the PM-56 floating workshop located on a permanent basis in the port of Tartus, Syria. This was reported by the Administration of Press and Information Service of the Ministry of Defence. They noted that the Saratov large landing ship arrived from the Aegean Sea to the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea to participate in the Russian Navy exercises. When sailing, one of the diesel-generators went wrong, the crew failed to eliminate the breakage.
Rosatom State Corporation placed two tenders for concluding a contract on construction of the first and second serial multipurpose nuclear icebreakers (Type 22220). Initial prices of contracts amount to 42 billion 2 million 810 thousand roubles and 44 billion 102 million 620 thousand roubles, respectively. The first icebreaker should be placed to the berth of Atomflot State Corporation until 15 June 2019, and the second up to 20 December 2020. According to its specifications, the multipurpose nuclear icebreaker will be able to effectively operate in the mouths of the Siberian rivers and along the Northern Sea Route. In addition, the nuclear ship will be the largest and powerful in the world, and thanks to its increased width (34 m instead of 30 of Arktika nuclear ships), the multipurpose nuclear icebreaker will be able to conduct tankers with displacement of up to 70 thousand tons in Arctic. The icebreaker will be able to deal with ice of up to 3 m.
STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd launched the ultramodern LNG gas carrier Veliky Novgorod ordered by the Sovcomflot under the long-term agreement with Gazprom Global LNG. The Veliky Novgorod is the first of two ships constructed by STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. It will have been constructed by December 2013. At the end of June 2012, they cut steel the second gas carrier Pskov of this series. The second ship will have been accepted in 2014.
Navis company and Pella Leningrad Shipyard signed a contract for equipping the fishing long-liner ships with Jastram steering gears. The steering gears will be integrated with the latest control systems by the steering hydraulic drive STCS4000 and autopilots AP4000 by Navis. In particular, the STCS4000 system will control the rudder in the tracking mode from any of the three command posts. The steering hydraulic drive ensuring a continuous operation of the ship at the water temperature from 0°C up to 23°C and air temperature from minus 25°C to 34°С will reach a speed of the rudder deflection from 45 degrees of one board to 45 degrees of the other board in 28 seconds.
The third serial Yasen-M multi-purpose nuclear submarine cruiser will be constructed in Severodvinsk in the summer of 2013. The multipurpose nuclear submarine of the fourth generation (Type 885М) will be laid in the 55-th shop of the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise (Sevmash). As expected, according to performances and combat effectiveness, the submarine may be compared with the high-technology and expensive American multi-purpose nuclear submarine (Seawolf), and according to one of the main parameters, noise level, even outperforms the foreigner. The boat is planned to be handed over in 2015.
Nevsky Shipyard laid the ninth ship of the ten dry-cargo vessels (river-sea) with deadweight 7 150 tons (Type RSD49), constructed for the Northwestern Shipping Company as per the project developed by the St. Petersburg Marine Engineering Bureau.
At the end of 2012, Moscow Shipbuilding and Shiprepair Yard won tender held by the Federal Agency for Sea and River Transportation to implement the Federal Target Investment Programme for 2012 and planning period of 2013 and 2014. On 27 December 2012, the Federal Agency for Sea and River Transportation and the Moscow Shipbuilding and Shiprepair Yard signed State Contract for the vessel construction within the programme "Service Fleet Renovation" (construction of buoyage vessel of Russian River Registry class "*O-pr 2.0 (Ice 20), which means "lake-going, lakeside, capable of moving in ice 20 cm thick and at wave height 2.0 m").
On the construction site of the Bronka Multipurpose Marine Handling Terminal (Big port of St. Petersburg), they started making the pile foundation of the wing wall (ferry pier No. 2). All in all, 76 of 430 sheet piles were submerged. In future, at this wing wall, a ramp (36 m wide) will be constructed to accept Ro-Ro vessels. Besides, the sheet piles for construction of container berths No. 7 and 8 were delivered to Bronka Terminal (1413 piles). They began to submerge the sheet piles at berths No. 7 and 8. The berths construction is planned to be completed in the third quarter of 2013.
The Baltic Sea is threatened by environmental disaster due to the dumping at its bottom up to 50 thousand tons of chemical substances since the Second World War. If not to immediately remove them, this can lead to contamination of the water area of the sea, said the Chairman of the International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions Mr. Terrence P. Long at the conference in Warsaw. It is reported that in some areas the accumulation of weapons is so great that one bomb explosion can lead to detonation of all the dumped munitions.
Far Eastern transport police received five new high-speed patrol boats, with a total value of 32.5 million roubles, reported Vostok-Media in the press office of the Transport Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Far East Federal District. The ships are intended for patrol, inspection, rescue and other investigation and search operations in navigation areas of rivers and seas. The equipment of the patrol police boats meets the up-to-date requirements of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia with the strategy to create viable and well-equipped transport police. The ships will sail in Khabarovsk, Nakhodka, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Sakhalin island, where the growth of illegal production of aquatic biological resources is an urgent issue.
The Ministry of Transport of Russia proposed to let foreign tourists sail to the country by yachts and pleasure boats without visas. The only restriction is arriving to Russia for a short period up to 72 hours. Now this entry regime exists only for the tourists arriving to Russia by specialised cruise vessels and ferries that have permission for passenger transportation. The law is aimed to create more favourable conditions for increasing the flow of tourists in the most attractive regions of the country to promote the infrastructure development.
The Russian fleet raised its flag on the new nuclear submarine designed to form a key part of the future nuclear means of deterrence. The Yury Dolgoruky submarine, which carries sixteen Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles, is the first of the new submarines (Type 955 Borey), which will replace the soviet vessels. Another submarine of the same type is currently being tested, and other two are under construction, reports Political Education news agency. Commissioning of new submarines is part of the ambitious programme for arms modernisation, which provides 20 trillion roubles for new arms till 2020.
Two thirds of profit of Russian Shipyards were provided by the naval shipbuilders, reports Lenta.ru. In 2012, Russia constructed the civil ships for 50.5 billion roubles, and the volume of orders in the naval shipbuilding was 92.1 billion. Thus, the naval shipbuilding spent almost two thirds of the Russian Shipyards profit. Since 2013, Russia will begin the programme of developing the civil shipbuilding, which will require investments of more than 600 billion roubles till 2030. The state budget will assign 337.9 billion roubles, of which 51.8 billion roubles are supposed to spend in 2013 to 2015.
Yantar Shipyard, Kaliningrad completes the harbour acceptance trials of the third frigate (Type 1135.6) constructed for the Indian Navy, and starts preparation for sea acceptance trials, reports the Military Industrial Complex. After a while, when degaussing is finished, the shipyard will officially start sea acceptance trials. However, preparatory operations are being made as early as today. Sea acceptance trials of the Trikand frigate will be conducted in two stages. The first stage will be at the shipyard and the second one at the Baltic Sea. Handing over the ship to the Indian Navy is planned for the summer of 2013.
The faulty diesel-generator of large landing ship (Black Sea Fleet) in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea will be repaired by the PM-56 floating workshop located on a permanent basis in the port of Tartus, Syria. This was reported by the Administration of Press and Information Service of the Ministry of Defence. They noted that the Saratov large landing ship arrived from the Aegean Sea to the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea to participate in the Russian Navy exercises. When sailing, one of the diesel-generators went wrong, the crew failed to eliminate the breakage.
Rosatom State Corporation placed two tenders for concluding a contract on construction of the first and second serial multipurpose nuclear icebreakers (Type 22220). Initial prices of contracts amount to 42 billion 2 million 810 thousand roubles and 44 billion 102 million 620 thousand roubles, respectively. The first icebreaker should be placed to the berth of Atomflot State Corporation until 15 June 2019, and the second up to 20 December 2020. According to its specifications, the multipurpose nuclear icebreaker will be able to effectively operate in the mouths of the Siberian rivers and along the Northern Sea Route. In addition, the nuclear ship will be the largest and powerful in the world, and thanks to its increased width (34 m instead of 30 of Arktika nuclear ships), the multipurpose nuclear icebreaker will be able to conduct tankers with displacement of up to 70 thousand tons in Arctic. The icebreaker will be able to deal with ice of up to 3 m.
STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd launched the ultramodern LNG gas carrier Veliky Novgorod ordered by the Sovcomflot under the long-term agreement with Gazprom Global LNG. The Veliky Novgorod is the first of two ships constructed by STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. It will have been constructed by December 2013. At the end of June 2012, they cut steel the second gas carrier Pskov of this series. The second ship will have been accepted in 2014.
Navis company and Pella Leningrad Shipyard signed a contract for equipping the fishing long-liner ships with Jastram steering gears. The steering gears will be integrated with the latest control systems by the steering hydraulic drive STCS4000 and autopilots AP4000 by Navis. In particular, the STCS4000 system will control the rudder in the tracking mode from any of the three command posts. The steering hydraulic drive ensuring a continuous operation of the ship at the water temperature from 0°C up to 23°C and air temperature from minus 25°C to 34°С will reach a speed of the rudder deflection from 45 degrees of one board to 45 degrees of the other board in 28 seconds.
The third serial Yasen-M multi-purpose nuclear submarine cruiser will be constructed in Severodvinsk in the summer of 2013. The multipurpose nuclear submarine of the fourth generation (Type 885М) will be laid in the 55-th shop of the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise (Sevmash). As expected, according to performances and combat effectiveness, the submarine may be compared with the high-technology and expensive American multi-purpose nuclear submarine (Seawolf), and according to one of the main parameters, noise level, even outperforms the foreigner. The boat is planned to be handed over in 2015.
Nevsky Shipyard laid the ninth ship of the ten dry-cargo vessels (river-sea) with deadweight 7 150 tons (Type RSD49), constructed for the Northwestern Shipping Company as per the project developed by the St. Petersburg Marine Engineering Bureau.
At the end of 2012, Moscow Shipbuilding and Shiprepair Yard won tender held by the Federal Agency for Sea and River Transportation to implement the Federal Target Investment Programme for 2012 and planning period of 2013 and 2014. On 27 December 2012, the Federal Agency for Sea and River Transportation and the Moscow Shipbuilding and Shiprepair Yard signed State Contract for the vessel construction within the programme "Service Fleet Renovation" (construction of buoyage vessel of Russian River Registry class "*O-pr 2.0 (Ice 20), which means "lake-going, lakeside, capable of moving in ice 20 cm thick and at wave height 2.0 m").
On the construction site of the Bronka Multipurpose Marine Handling Terminal (Big port of St. Petersburg), they started making the pile foundation of the wing wall (ferry pier No. 2). All in all, 76 of 430 sheet piles were submerged. In future, at this wing wall, a ramp (36 m wide) will be constructed to accept Ro-Ro vessels. Besides, the sheet piles for construction of container berths No. 7 and 8 were delivered to Bronka Terminal (1413 piles). They began to submerge the sheet piles at berths No. 7 and 8. The berths construction is planned to be completed in the third quarter of 2013.
