Pella Shipyard (Leningrad region) has signed a contract with the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on construction of two tugboats of project 90600, the shipbuilding company says.
Under the contract, the first tug is to be built and delivered to the customer in 2016, the second one – in 2017. The tugboats are to be deployed for operation in Astrakhan and Baltijsk.
The tugboat is intended for towing and berthing operations in harbor, off-harbour and coastal areas which comply with R3 navigation area, refloating of ships and vessels, fire fighting operations at floating and shore objects, oil spill response activities, assisting operations in ports.
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Technical information: |
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Length max |
25.4 m |
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Width max |
8.8 m |
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Draught |
3.3 m |
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Speed |
11.5 knots |
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Classificaion |
КМ Arc4 R3 Aut3 Tug by Russian Register of shipping. |
Deck equipment: bow electro-hydraulic anchor-towing-mooring winch Fluidmecanica providing 10 t of bollard pull and 847 kN of brake holding force; 60 t towing hook GMH with quick release device.
The tugboat is equipped with cargo crane Palfinger with lifting capacity of 250 kilos at the boom of 4m.
In order to fulfill fire-fighting operations the tugboat is equipped with external fire fighting system made by FFS (capacity is 800 m3/h, 2 water monitors, water curtains system).
JSC Pella Shipyard based in Russia’s Leningrad region was founded in 1950. In 1992 Pella was privatized as Pella Holding Co. comprising the head office and several subsidiaries. The shipbuilding firm specializes in building tractor tugs with rated power of 1,000hp to 5,000hp, push boats, escort tugs, pilot boats and SAR boats for Russian customers and for export.