Red Sormovo won the tanker contract worth $17 million in international tender in April. The Jeykhun will be the third ship built by a Russian shipbuilder for the merchant fleet of Turkmenistan.
Red Sormovo Plant had completed earlier a two tankers project worth $31 million. In 2009, the large-tonnage Sumbar and Khazar, capable to carry six kinds of petroleum products at a time, docked at the port of Turkmenbashi city.