A modern high-tech Aframax-size tanker was added to the fleet of Sovcomflot Group yesterday, the company’s press service reported. The official naming ceremony of the vessel was held at the shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI, S. Korea). The tanker was named Moscovsky Prospekt after one of the main highways of St. Petersburg.
The 114,100dwt tanker Moskovsky Prospekt has Ice Class 1C (International Classification) will be transporting crude oil. The vessel's length - 250 m, breadth - 44 m, maximum draft - 15 m.
The vessel was designed for operations in the Baltic and Far East regions of Russia, for transportation of hydrocarbons from the ports of Primorsk, Ust-Luga and Kozmino. The tanker meets all national and international safety requirements of the DNV classification society.
According to the company’s officials, it was SCF Baltica, the Aframax type tanker owned a group of companies of Sovcomflot, that appears to be the largest ship in the history of world shipping, which had transported recently cargo along to the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk to the Chinese port of Ningbo.
Today, Sovcomflot operates the world’s second largest dwt fleet in the segment of Aframax tankers and places orders for the construction of such vessels, due to increasing Russia’s freight volumes and expanding capacities of Russian sea oil terminals in the North West, the Far East and Southern regions of Russia.
The St. Petersburg-based Sovcomflot Group is a largest Russian shipping companies. The company owns and operates the fleet of 147 ships of total deadweight of more than 10.7 million tons. The Sovcomflot’s shipbuilding program includes 8 vessels of total deadweight of 0.62 million tons.
The 114,100dwt tanker Moskovsky Prospekt has Ice Class 1C (International Classification) will be transporting crude oil. The vessel's length - 250 m, breadth - 44 m, maximum draft - 15 m.
The vessel was designed for operations in the Baltic and Far East regions of Russia, for transportation of hydrocarbons from the ports of Primorsk, Ust-Luga and Kozmino. The tanker meets all national and international safety requirements of the DNV classification society.
According to the company’s officials, it was SCF Baltica, the Aframax type tanker owned a group of companies of Sovcomflot, that appears to be the largest ship in the history of world shipping, which had transported recently cargo along to the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk to the Chinese port of Ningbo.
Today, Sovcomflot operates the world’s second largest dwt fleet in the segment of Aframax tankers and places orders for the construction of such vessels, due to increasing Russia’s freight volumes and expanding capacities of Russian sea oil terminals in the North West, the Far East and Southern regions of Russia.
The St. Petersburg-based Sovcomflot Group is a largest Russian shipping companies. The company owns and operates the fleet of 147 ships of total deadweight of more than 10.7 million tons. The Sovcomflot’s shipbuilding program includes 8 vessels of total deadweight of 0.62 million tons.