The 19900 project tankers designed by Volga-Caspian Design Bureau are intended for transportation of crude oil, gas condensate, petroleum products (including process gasoline) with a flash point of vapors at below 60º C and a maximum density of transported goods 0.99 t/cbm with a possibility of heating the cargo. The vessel can carry simultaneously three types of cargo.
"This is a response of the national shipbuilding industry to our foreign colleagues, as well as all the pessimists who said it’s all day with the domestic shipbuilding industry. We are going to complete the second tanker for the customer by May 2011", MNP CEO Vadim Malov said.
The vessel was designed to a class KM * Ice l [1] R2 AUT1-ICS OMBO LI VCS Oil Tanker (ESP) of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping. Ship characteristics: length - 141.4 m, breadth - 16.84 m, hull height - 6.82 m, speed - not less than 10.5 knots, cruising capacity - 20 days (salt water), 10 days (fresh water), number of cargo tanks - 12, slop tanks – 2, crew members - 12/14. DWT (salt water) 7100 tons at 4,60-m draft, in fresh water – 4700dwt at 3,60-m draft. Total capacity of 14 tanks - 8,256 cbm, main engine power rated - 2h1200 kW, cruising speed - 10.5 knots.
The Shipyard Krasnoye Sormovo Plant located in Nizhny Novgorod is one of the oldest Russian shipbuilding companies, founded back in 1849. All vessels built at the Krasnoye Sormovo meet the requirements of MARPOL conventions, having the state-of-the-art equipment.
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).