Keel-laying of the forth dry-cargo ship for Irinvestship Limited at Volgograd Shipyard
Volgograd Shipyard, MNP Group, performed keel-laying of the forth dry-cargo ship project RSD19 for Irinvestship Limited (Iran), MNP’s press release reads. In August, 2005 Volgograd Shipyard signed contact with Irinvestship Limited for building a series of river-sea-going dry-cargo ships project RSD19. Four ships are scheduled to be built within two years upon signature of the contract. The lead ship was launched in November, 2006. The second vessel was keel-laid in June, 2006, the third – in October.
Maximum length of the ships project RSD19 is 140 m, width – 16.70 m, depth – 6 m, draught (sea/river) is – 4.6/3.6 m, ballast draught is – 3.15 m, deadweight (sea/river) -6,750/4,343 mt, cargo capacity (sea/river) – 6,325/4,100 mt. The design was worked out by Maritime Engineering Bureau (Odessa, Ukraine) for class КМ*ЛУ2 1 IА1 of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping and meets all the requirements of international conventions.
The dry-cargo ship is designed for transportation of general and bulk cargo, timber and large-size cargo, 8.5-9-ft international standard containers. The ship is fitted with 4 cargo tanks of total capacity 10,800 cubic m, capacity of ballast tanks is 3,900 cubic m, sea endurance is 4,000 miles, loaded speed is 10.5 knots, the crew is 13/16 people.
Volgograd Shipyard has built over one thousand of tankers, trawler-seiners, crane ships, oil skimmers, hulls of dry-cargo ships and chemical tankers, diving depot ships, floating pumping stations. By the estimate of the British Royal Society of the naval architects dry-cargo ships project 006RSD05, built at the Yard for Palmali Company, are acknowledged the best among the vessels of this class. At present the Yard is engaged in building of a series of four dry-cargo ship project RSD19 for the Iranian company Irinvestship Limited. Recently the Yard has started construction of tankers project 4450 for Svithoid Tankers AB (Sweden). This is the first sea-going ice-reinforced vessel, built in Russia.