Weekly News Week 4 (21 to 25 January)

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The North-West Shipping Company accepted and put into service the Yashma multipurpose dry-cargo vessel that is the last in series of ten vessels of Type DCV36. All the vessels are built at the Qingdao Hyundai Shipbuilding Yard. In the beginning of January, the Yashma is expected to be loaded with cargo at one of the Chinese ports to be then going to the destination point in the Black Sea. The vessels of Type DCV36 having tonnage of 5 thousand tons are intended for transportation of general and bulk cargo between ports of the Black, Mediterranean, North and Baltic Seas. The high ice class (Ice3) of these vessels makes it possible to use them in the Baltic and White Seas in winter.

The official ceremony took place at Yaroslavl Shipyard (VP FINSUDPROM management company) marking the laying of the third serial landing craft of Type 21820 serial No. 703. The construction contract was signed by Yaroslavl Shipyard and the Ministry of Defence of Russia on 23 June 2011. The crafts of Type 21820 are to be designed by the Alexeyev Central Hydrofoil Design Bureau, Nizhny Novgorod.
Performances:
- Total displacement: 280 t
- Length: 45 m
- Width: 8.6 m
- Draught: 2.2 m
- Full speed: 35 knots
- Weapons: 2 х 1 14.5 mm machine gun MPTU-1
- Troop capacity: 3 main tanks or 5 armoured personnel carriers or 140 t of cargo
- Crew: 6 in number

The Krylov State Research Centre have finished research and development works for creation of advanced technologies to control the quality of welded joints in ship pipelines. Also, the specialised models of acoustic emission equipment of new generation adapted to the conditions of the shipbuilding yards were developed. The inormation is given by the press office of the Krylov State Scientific Centre. As a result, for the first time in shipbuilding industry the procedural guidelines and hardware were created for acoustic emission diagnostics used for controlling the quality of welded joints in ship pipelines at the manufacturing and compression testing stages.

The Federal Arbitration Court of the Northwestern District reversed the judgment of the lower court in the matter of punishment of the Admiralty Shipyards in behalf of Lazurit Central Design Bureau in 176.346 million roubles under the contract for designing a deep water diving system. The relative contact was concluded on 18 May 2006. Under the contract the designing of diving system for the rescue ship of Type 21300 was envisaged under the contract of Admiralty Shipyards with the Ministry of Defence dated 24 October 2005. According to the arbitration materials the initial cost was mutually agreed by the parties in the amount of 672.98 million roubles but in November 2010 is was increased up to 928.19 million roubles. Since Lazurit violated the terms of obligations for designing the deep water diving system, the contract was terminated on 21 December 2011.

Russia needs more ship-repair yards Creation of the Southern Ship Repairing Centre will not only meet the requirements of the Russian fleet in servicing, but also invoke the development of industry in the south of Russia, stated Alexander Shishkarev after the meeting concerning the basing of the Black Sea Fleet and development of ship repair facilities in southern Russia hold by deputy of the State Duma Committee on Energy, Transport and Communications. He reminded that now a vessel basing site is being built in Novorossiysk as well as a new base for vessels in Temryuk. Nevertheless, there are many difficulties regarding the territory for arranging ammunition storage, supplying and loading weapons to ships in the area of Malyy Utrish. Also, financing is out of schedule. Obviously, considering arming and equipping programme till 2020 and commissioning of ships for combat duty in 2014-2015, ship-repair facilities do not correspond to the needs of the fleet.

Two Arctica-2D hovercrafts constructed in Omsk will be used as public transport for passengers travelling form Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy and their transportation to the military town of Viluchinsk that is difficult of access and is separated by Avachinskaya Bay. Local authorities are interested in purchasing the Omsk crafts as it makes possible to transport cargo and passengers by water, bogs and dry land for more than 1.2 thousand kilometers. As reported by authorities, the amphibious vessel with seating capacity of 14 persons allows reducing the travelling time down to 10 minutes.

The official ceremony took place at the Yaroslavl Shipyard. The new vessel was named Michman Lermontov in the memory of distant relative of the great poet and hero of the Patriotic War of 1812. Now, under the contract with the Ministry of Defence signed in June 2011, the Denis Davydov and Leitenant Rimsky-Korsakov vessels are being constructed at the Yaroslavl Shipyard. New boats are to be provided according to the State Defence Order. Each fleet will get four or five boats of the type.

Moscow Shipbuilding and Shiprepair Yard started the construction of two Katran rescue and crew boats of Type 21770 under the contract with Admiralty Shipyards. The boats are designed for supporting everyday activities of the mother ship being at anchor, in the roadstead or in the base. The boat is sized to be transported by sea, road, railway or air and is suitable for all the navigable internal waterways. Specifications:
Type: shipborne crew boat with inflatable elastic sides
Overall length: 9.12 m
Width: 3.32 m
Draught: 0.67 m
Speed: 32 knots

The new NS Yakutia bulk ship was launched on Monday in Korea. The ship will sweep the seas under the flag of African state of Liberia. This information is available at the official website of the Sovcomflot. The ship is intended for cargo transportation in the Far East District. The NS Yakutia bulk ship was constructed at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard and will be used for supplying coal, grain, iron ore, potash, cement and nonhazardous fertilizers. In addition to the ice class allowing NS Yakutia to operate in the Far East in winter, the bulk ship has a high level of environmental protection, as stated the representative of the permanent mission.
Specifications:
Overall length: 225.00 m
Width: 32.25 m
Hull height: 19.50 m
Maximum draught: 14.10 m
Deadweight: 74 000 t
Number of cargo holds: 7.

Alexeyev Central Hydrofoil Design Bureau, Nizhny Novgorod is developing a new hydrofoil vessels with captured-air-bubble. The customer is the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. Trials of hull and hydrofoil unit (new model is named Valday 45-RK) are scheduled for 2014. The use of carbon fibre reinforced plastic materials will allow reducing the cost of serial vessels, improving comfort by reducing noise and vibration as well as providing up-to-date appearance of the vessel. Also, construction of the vessel will require less working hours, the vessel will feature reduced fuel consumption (by 5 per cent) and improved safety. The vessel dimensions of 21x3.6 m ensure that the vessel can move at a speed of 60 km/h (speed of the first type of Russian hydrofoil boats named Raketa is almost the same).

The HHL NEW YORK vessel entered Avachinskaya Bay. The vessel carries Sosnovka-3 and Sosnovka-4 sea self-propelled barges on board. These barges were built in the Kirov Region at the Sosnovka Shipyard based on the special design considering severe conditions of Kamchatka. The length of Sosnovka barges is 42 m and tonnage 250 t. The barges are designed for transporting general and bulk cargo, containers on the cargo deck, wheeled and tracked vehicles.

Russia changes the policy regarding foreign employees. The Russian Federal Drug Control Service says the following on the matter.  In general, eight federal migration laws has come into force since January. One of the amendments improves the procedure of attracting highly qualified foreign specialists (employees) for ship crews and makes it possible for foreign citizens who are temporarily resident in the Russian Federation to work in Russia without work permit. Now all the documents for employment of foreign specialists can be submitted in the electronic form (including the Internet).

After 2020, the Russian Nuclear Icebreaker Fleet will adopt at least five new powerful nuclear icebreakers for service, as stated by the general director of the company Vyacheslav Ruksha after announcing tenders for construction of the first vessels of Type 22220. The all-purpose nuclear icebreakers will be designed for guidance of vessel transporting hydrocarbons from the fields of the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas, and the Kara Sea shelf to the markets of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Total amount of financing for environment programme being developed for the Russian Arctic within the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will exceed 300 million dollars till 2018. The great programme "Arctic Prospects 2020" for saving Arctic ecosystems in rapidly changing climate was started last year and is scheduled for five years. The plan consists of six projects and three of them will be developed by UNEP: Arctic Management, Saving Arctic Biological Diversity and Integrated Management of Siberian River Basins.

On 22 January the Boiky corvette was tugged away from the fitting-out berth of Severnaya Shipyard to Kronshtadt. After finishing all preparatory operations and obtaining the required stock of materials, Boiky will be delivered from Kronstadt to the main base of the Baltic Fleet in Baltiysk to complete sea acceptance trials and to pass state trials.

Nevsky Shipyard laid the keel of the ninth Neva-Leader 9 multipurpose dry cargo vessel of Type RSD49 designed by the Marine Engineering Bureau. The customer is Northwestern Shipping Company. The vessels of Type RSD49 (as well as their prototype RSD19) regarding the displacement, nowadays are considered to be the largest of cargo vessels satisfying the dimensions of the the Volga-Don Canal. Deadweight is about 4520 t on the river at of 3.60 m draught (which is specific for the Volga-Don Canal) and maximum deadweight is 7143 t at draught 4.70 m at sea. Length is 139.95 m, overall width is 16.70 m. Design life of the hull is 24 years.  



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