Admiralty Shipyards FSUE plans to deliver Arctic tanker Mikhail Ulyanov to its customer Sovcomflot in 2009, Sovcomflot Director General Sergei Burima told journalists a the ceremony dedicated to the delivery of the Transsib Bridge tanker built by Admiralty Shipyards for Sovcomflot. As of today, there are two 70,000-dwt Arctic tankers under construction at Admiralty Shipyards – the Mikhail Ulyanov and the Kirill Lavrov tankers, RBC reports. According to Burima, these tankers are unique vessels designed for transportation of liquefied gas. "Such vessels were never built in Russia before,” a representative of Sovcomflot noted.
Today Sovcomflot accepted the Transsib Bridge from Admiralty Shipyards. “Transsib Bridge” is the eighth vessel in a series of product carriers ordered by the Sovcomflot Group from the Admiralty Shipyards. Its length is 182.5 m, breadth – 32.2 m, depth – 17.5 m, deadweight – 47,400, speed -15 knots. This vessel is to become the first tanker to be loaded at the new oil product terminal in Primorsk, the opening of which is scheduled for the mid May of 2008.
Admiralty Shipyards is the oldest shipyard in Russia, established by Peter the Great on 5 November 1704. Today the yards are engaged in the design, constuction and in modernisation of merchant marine vessels, as well as in construction and rebuilding of ships for the Navy. In 2007, the company’s proceeds amounted to RUR 10 billion.