Shipyard Yantar to complete test vessel construction December 2009
Baltic shipyard Yantar ( part of Western Shipbuilding Center OJSC) started a final stage of a test vessel hull building ‘Seliger’. As PortNews IAA learnt from the press-service of shipyard Yantar, shipyard workers successfully joined a semi-completed vessel hull to a bottom section of the forward vessel block on Burevestnik staple, October 22 current year. Thus, the vessel hull is 60% completed to the date.
The vessel hull will be fully assembled in December, 2009 when the rest parts will be joined to the existing structure. The building is developed in strict compliance with the general schedule, highlighted in the company.
Design 11982 test vessel Seliger was laid down in Yantar shipyard on June 8, current year. Its length is 59.7 m, width – 10.8 m, water-displacement – about 1117 tons. Its launch is planned for late 2011. The vessel will be handed over to the client, Ministry of Defense of Russia, in 2011.
Shipyard "Yantar" was established on July 8, 1945, numbered 820 on the basis of Konigsberg branch of Schichau Werft. It is specialized in building of military-oriented and civil light- and medium-tonnage vessels and in vessels repair as well. The shipyard built 154 military vessels and over 500 civil boats in the course of its 64-year history. Controlling share of stock of shipyard Yantar OJSC is controlled by the state represented by Western Shipbuilding Center OJSC to the date.