Saint-Petersburg based engineering company Global Technologies of Innovative Systems (GTIS) has presented a new Russian product at the port of Saint-Petersburg – multi-functional pontoon for dredging and underwater engineering operations. As GTIS Director General Yevgeny Yeryomin told IAA PortNews, the construction was performed at the premises of Interferrum-Metal, stevedoring company operating at Big Port St. Petersburg, and tested in the water area of the port.
“It is a low-cost domestic solution allowing for maintenance dredging at seaports and rivers, as well as for dredging under large scale port projects. I’m sure our pontoon will be in demand, also among state customers. We count on finding a partner among Russian shipyards for building such pontoons,” said Yevgeny Yeryomin.
According to the head of GTIS, the development and implementation of the project involved the specialists of Krylov State Research Center which carried out the modeling works.
GTIS LLC is currently operating under four contracts at the port of Ust-Luga (Leningrad Region):
Nevskaya Pipeline Company LLC (removing of alluvion from the gabion field of Berths No 4 and No 5).
Nevskaya Pipeline Company LLC (gabion bottom protection at Berth No 5).
Ust-Luga Oil OJSC (gabion bottom protection at Berth No 1).
Ust-Luga Oil OJSC (repair of sheet-pile wall, dismantling of building structures).
The new pontoon is supposed to be used for implementation of these and other projects.
Multi-functional pontoon (Project 04043) is built as a platform for the following applications:
1. Dredging;
2. Underwater engineering operations;
3. Drilling at the continental shelf;
4. Cable laying;
5. Power supply;
6. Repair of onshore hydraulic engineering facilities.
Key characteristics: LOA – 25.6 m, BOA – 13.4 m, midships depth - 3.0 m.