Center for ship repairs Zvezdochka (Severodvinsk) handed over to the Russian Navy a rescue tug named Zvezdochka. The multi-purpose vessel is designed for search and rescue operations, transportation by sea of containers, heavy equipment for engineering, research and testing, including its towing, installation and reloading, the enterprise press release said.
The tugboat can also provide the testing of marine equipment, arms and weapons, the search, examination and lifting of sunken marine equipment and other operations related to deployment, use, and raising of large floating and ground facilities, provision of training of the Navy forces with the use of such technology. The vessel can carry helicopters on board. The vessel is equipped with cargo cranes located at the rear. The ship is also intended for prospecting of the shelf, transportation of pipe sections, etc.
Center for ship repairs Zvezdochka is a modern machine-building enterprise. The shipyard has two sheltered slipways with seven stockpile sites for ship repair and building new vessels of up to 18,000 dwt. Zvezdochka’s stockholders are the Russian Federation represented by the Federal Agency for Management of Federal Property and Northern Center of Shipbuilding and Ship Repair JSC.
The tugboat can also provide the testing of marine equipment, arms and weapons, the search, examination and lifting of sunken marine equipment and other operations related to deployment, use, and raising of large floating and ground facilities, provision of training of the Navy forces with the use of such technology. The vessel can carry helicopters on board. The vessel is equipped with cargo cranes located at the rear. The ship is also intended for prospecting of the shelf, transportation of pipe sections, etc.
Center for ship repairs Zvezdochka is a modern machine-building enterprise. The shipyard has two sheltered slipways with seven stockpile sites for ship repair and building new vessels of up to 18,000 dwt. Zvezdochka’s stockholders are the Russian Federation represented by the Federal Agency for Management of Federal Property and Northern Center of Shipbuilding and Ship Repair JSC.