Nobel Bros Shipyard lays keel of second 3052series buoy tender (photo release)
A keel laying ceremony was held yesterday, November 25 at the yard of Rybinsk, Russia based JSC Moscow Shipbuilding and Ship Repair (Moscow Shipyard) - Nobel Brothers Shipyard for second serial buoy tender of Project 3052 ordered by Federal Agency of Maritime and River Transport, the shipbuilder said in a news release.
The agency placed the 3052 series vessel order with Moscow Shipyard in line with its state contract for upgrading the fleet of tending vessels (construction of buoy tender to RRR's O-PR 2.0 (Ice 20) Class). The vessel design was developed at SCDB RECHFLOT.
This is the first newbuilding order to be executed at Nobel Bros Shipyard LLC now managed by JSC Moscow Shipyard. The shipbuilding firm has had successful experience in building bouy tenders in cooperation with other shipbuilders, such as Samusky Shipyard LLC, JSC SZiOR (Blagoveshchensk) and VLRVPiS (Zhigalovo). All of the state contracts were executed on schedule and on budget.
The 3052 series buoy tenders are very important and necessary type of vessels for the basin departments of inland waterways and navigation. The tenders are designed to ensure the safety of shipping on local waterways.
The eco-friendly vessels are easy to operate, maintain and repair and meet the requirements of the classification society.
The multipurpose ship of 3052 project is intended for deployment, removal, transportation of navigation marks, including river and lake markers and buoys (4), for on-site maintenance and repair of navaids; for monitoring the waterways channels condition; for towing of non-self propelled or stranded vessels; for cargo transportation and for offshore supply.
Ship's main characteristics:
Buoy Tender (service and support)
Class: RRR* O-PR 2.0 (Ice 20)
LOA - 35.8 m,
Beam - 6.0 m,
Max Draft - 1.4 m ,
Full Displacement - 144 cub m,
Main engines rated power - 2x225 hp,
Operational speed - 13 knots,
Endurance - 5 days.
Crew - 4-6.
Rybinsk, Russia based Nobel Brothers Shipyard LLC was founded in 1907. Today, this is the largest shipbuilding firm in the Upper Volga: the yard encompasses 214,000 sq.km, the company's workforce is 500 employees. The company specializes in the construction, maintenance, repair and refitting of sea-going and river multipurpose vessels, including dry bulk carriers, tankers, barges, container ships, timber carriers, construction of diving support and hydrographic vessels, harbour vessels, workboats, boom-laying boats; hulls of various types, modern comfortable yachts.
The shipyard is able to construct vessels of 6500 DWT, of length of 140 m, breadth of 17 m and launching weight of up to 2700 tonnes.
OJSC Moscow Shipbuilding & Repair Yard (Moscow Shipyard) is one of the oldest Russian shipyards. Since its inception in 1936, the company has built over 1,800 ships. Now its part of the state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation. Moscow Shipyard is the major Russian manufacturer of river passenger vessels, including luxury motor yachts with length 25 to 50 meters. The full cycle company has in-house naval architecture and marine engineering office, hull production, painting, electric-installation, machine-assembly and interior facilities.
In 2010, the company started to build new-generation passenger motor vessels. In September 2011, the shipyard commenced the construction of high-speed multipurpose boats of project МРВ14 for Russian seaports. Since then the company has been executing contracts for a package of 27 buoy tenders of project 3050 and 12 buoy tenders of 3050.1 series for inland waterways. Since last autumn the shipyard has been building boats for the Russian Navy.