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  • 2009 October 26 12:09

    Sovcomflot’s Radomir towboat to be involved in LARN plans in the port of Ust-Luga

    Radomir towboat built for Sovcomflot OJSC in Leningrad Shipyard Pella (Leningrad region) will be included into the oil spill management plan (LARN) of Ust-Luga port and into LARN plan of an oil terminal, informed Morskoi Vestnik, Novoship’s corporate newspaper (a part of Sovcomflot group) with reference to Oleg Glukhov, Captain of Ust-Luga port, informes at the ceremony of naming the new towboat that took place in October

    ‘Such vessels shall be used both in tankers mooring/unmooring and in oil spill management, rescue of people in the sea,’ stated Oleg Glukhov.

    Radomir towboat design16609, built by specialists of Pella OJSC, is fitted out with the world brands equipment manufacturers: 2 Caterpillar engines, rubber propellers by Rolls-Royce. The towboat can carry out a wide range of operations including fire-fighting at external objects.

    It the first out of 4 towboats ordered by Sovcomflot OJSC. The vessel is classified as Arc4 ice-breaker by the Russian Register of Shipping and meets all the modern requirements set forth to the vessels of the type.

    Leningrad Shipyard Pella OJSC comprises 11 subsidiary and affiliated companies. PellaPella’s authorized capital amounts to RUR 308.8 thou divided into 154.4 thou A-type registered shares and 463.2 thou ordinary shares with nominal value of RUR 0.5 each. specializes in three basic activities: shipbuilding, mechanical engineering and fiberglass production.


    Sovcomflot OJSC group of companies is one of the Russia’s largest enterprises. Its fleet consists of 137 vessels of overall deadweight 96 million tons. Average age of tanker fleet amounts to 6 years (with an average world figure – 12 years). Sovcomflot group stands first in the number of ‘Aframax’ tankers, second – in food-carriers sector. The company has the world’s largest fleet of vessels designed to work in ice-conditions. It provides its Customers not only with services on hydrocarbons shipments but also operations on crude oil transhipment through oil-storage, elaboration of effective logistics schemes of power-carriers shipment.
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