Ukrainian shipyard Zaliv prepares for the largest order since soviet times

It intends to build a fully completed bulk ship with a payload of 175 thousand tons will be made for one of the Ukrainian companies. Totally it is planned to construct 10 bulk ships of such type for the same customer. As the shipyard’s press-service informed at present the technical project of the ship designed by central design office "Chernomorsudoproject" (Nikolaev), is at the final stage of approval by the leading classification society "Germanischer Lloyd". In April, 2008 modeling tests which passed in the development pool "Marin" (Netherlands) were finished. According to the shipyard this order is "the largest project since the USSR". Before the largest cargo ship constructed in the Soviet Union was the tanker of the type "Crimea" with the payload of 150 thousand tons.