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2010 April 30   15:09

Red Sormovo eyes a tanker contract with Turkmenistan

Red Sormovo Plant, part of MNP Group, hopes to get an order for building a 7.000dwt crude carrier, rive-sea-going tanker for Turkmendenizderyayollary, a Turkmenistan freight carrier. The Russian shipbuilder has prepared all documents required for the contract and handed them over to the customer. The tanker contract is expected to be signed soon, the MNP’s press service said.

The tanker dimensions are as follows: length - 141.4 m, width - 16.84 m, depth - 6,82 m, deadweight at sea - about 7000 tons, laden tanker draft 4,60 m, in the river - 4700 tons, draft 3.6 m, capacity of twelve cargo tanks and two slop tanks - 8256m2, of main engine power rated 2x1200 kW, operating speed - 10,5 knots. The shipbuilder installs two medium-diesel engines rated 1200 kW, operating on heavy fuel viscosity IFO380.

The tanker specifications include full-circle steerable propeller, facilitating the ship control, submersible pumps, etc.

Earlier, the Russian Shipyard had built for Turkmendenizderyayollary two tankers. Sumbar ship was delivered to the customer in August 2009, the second vessel Khazar - in October 2009.

MNP Group, Sea, Oil & Gas Projects, is the Company Manager of shipbuilding projects. The Group is comprised of Plant Krasnoye (Red) Sormovo (Nizhny Novgorod), Sormovskoe (Sormovo) Engineering (Nizhny Novgorod) and the Volga-Caspian Design Bureau (Nizhny Novgorod).

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