Shusha tanker leaves Krasnoye Sormovo for her customer
The Shusha tanker project 19619 has left the water area of Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard (Nizhni Novgorod) for her customer, State Caspian Shipping Company (CASPAR). According to MNP Director General Vadim Malov, the thirteenth 13,000-dwt tanker was built ahead of the schedule which seems to become a good tradition at Krasnoye Sormovo, MNP press center reports.
The contract with CASPAR was signed in June 2008; the tanker was launched in June 2009 with her official delivery held in mid September while the delivery was scheduled for the end of 2009.
As of today, sea-and-river going tankers project 19619 are the largest in the Caspian Sea, capable of entering any port without port terminal re-equipment. They are designed for transportation of crude oil and oil products with flash point less than 60 Celsius degrees. Tankers project 19619 have length of 150 m, breadth – 17.30 m, depth – 10.5 m, deadweight – over 13,000 t. The design of the tanker was worked out by Engineering Bureau of MNP Group (at present - Volgo-Caspian Design Bureau). The tanker is registered as КМ * Ice1 R1 [1] Aut1 with the Russian Maritime Registry of Shipping.
The Caspian Shipping Company is a large shipowning company. The basic sort of activity is the transportation of cargoes, with a prevalence of petroleum and petroleum products. Areas of navigation: Caspian sea, Black sea, Mediterranean sea, Sea of Marmara. The cargoes delivered to the Caspian Sea from the ports of the Baltic and the Black Sea-Mediterranean basins through the Volga-Baltic and Volgodonsk navigable systems, are sent without crossings to the ports of Iran. Another branch of the Caspian Shipping Company, working in the Black Sea-Azov basin, carries out the transportations of the cargoes of foreign freighters to the ports of Europe, Near East and Northern Africa.
MNP group (Marine and Oil Projects) is an international company managing projects in shipbuilding and engineering of offshore drilling platforms. MNP Group incorporates Russian leading shipyards.
The contract with CASPAR was signed in June 2008; the tanker was launched in June 2009 with her official delivery held in mid September while the delivery was scheduled for the end of 2009.
As of today, sea-and-river going tankers project 19619 are the largest in the Caspian Sea, capable of entering any port without port terminal re-equipment. They are designed for transportation of crude oil and oil products with flash point less than 60 Celsius degrees. Tankers project 19619 have length of 150 m, breadth – 17.30 m, depth – 10.5 m, deadweight – over 13,000 t. The design of the tanker was worked out by Engineering Bureau of MNP Group (at present - Volgo-Caspian Design Bureau). The tanker is registered as КМ * Ice1 R1 [1] Aut1 with the Russian Maritime Registry of Shipping.
The Caspian Shipping Company is a large shipowning company. The basic sort of activity is the transportation of cargoes, with a prevalence of petroleum and petroleum products. Areas of navigation: Caspian sea, Black sea, Mediterranean sea, Sea of Marmara. The cargoes delivered to the Caspian Sea from the ports of the Baltic and the Black Sea-Mediterranean basins through the Volga-Baltic and Volgodonsk navigable systems, are sent without crossings to the ports of Iran. Another branch of the Caspian Shipping Company, working in the Black Sea-Azov basin, carries out the transportations of the cargoes of foreign freighters to the ports of Europe, Near East and Northern Africa.
MNP group (Marine and Oil Projects) is an international company managing projects in shipbuilding and engineering of offshore drilling platforms. MNP Group incorporates Russian leading shipyards.