The Yalova-based Turkish Besiktas Shipyard held today (Dec. 20) an official launching ceremony of the 7,000DWT Mubariz Ibraimov, a lead ship of newbuilds of project RST22M, the project designer, Marine Engineering Bureau, said. The ship is being built for the Russian group of companies Palmali.
The new series vessels is the development of 005RST01 project, known as the ARMADA's first series tankers, previously designed by Marine Engineering Bureau for Palmali and built at shipyards SELAH and ADA in Tuzla (Turkey) in 2002-2006 and a modification of the second series of tanker of projectRST22, constructed at Nizhny Novgorod-based Krasnoye Sormovo in 2008-2009.
Ten tankers of the Armada class first series and five tankers of the New Armada are being successfully servicing mixed "river-sea” shipments of crude oil, fuel oil, diesel fuel and other petroleum products and vegetable oils, as well as on marine transportation in the Caspian, Black, Mediterranean, Baltic and North Seas, including winter services around Europe and in the Irish Sea.
The vessels dimensions fit the Volga-Don Canal and Volga-Baltic inland waterway. The vessels LOA is 139,95 m, breadth – 16,6 m, depth - 6,0 m. The ships are built to Volga-Don max class.
The third series newbuildings includes 10 vessels (5 in contract, 5 in option).
The group of companies Palmali specializes in cargo shipment in the Mediterranean, Caspian and Black Seas. Palmali Group is a major carrier of oil companies SOCAR (Azerbaijan) and LUKOIL (Russia) on the southern services. The Group has also secured long-term contracts for transportation of petroleum products from TNK-BP.
Marine Engineering Bureau is a non-governmental design and engineering firm recognized by Russian Maritime Register of Shipping Russian River Register and Register of Shipping Ukraine.
The new series vessels is the development of 005RST01 project, known as the ARMADA's first series tankers, previously designed by Marine Engineering Bureau for Palmali and built at shipyards SELAH and ADA in Tuzla (Turkey) in 2002-2006 and a modification of the second series of tanker of projectRST22, constructed at Nizhny Novgorod-based Krasnoye Sormovo in 2008-2009.
Ten tankers of the Armada class first series and five tankers of the New Armada are being successfully servicing mixed "river-sea” shipments of crude oil, fuel oil, diesel fuel and other petroleum products and vegetable oils, as well as on marine transportation in the Caspian, Black, Mediterranean, Baltic and North Seas, including winter services around Europe and in the Irish Sea.
The vessels dimensions fit the Volga-Don Canal and Volga-Baltic inland waterway. The vessels LOA is 139,95 m, breadth – 16,6 m, depth - 6,0 m. The ships are built to Volga-Don max class.
The third series newbuildings includes 10 vessels (5 in contract, 5 in option).
The group of companies Palmali specializes in cargo shipment in the Mediterranean, Caspian and Black Seas. Palmali Group is a major carrier of oil companies SOCAR (Azerbaijan) and LUKOIL (Russia) on the southern services. The Group has also secured long-term contracts for transportation of petroleum products from TNK-BP.
Marine Engineering Bureau is a non-governmental design and engineering firm recognized by Russian Maritime Register of Shipping Russian River Register and Register of Shipping Ukraine.