Pella Shipyard based in Leningrad region of Russia has won in bidding for the supply of a new tugboat worth EUR 6.35m for Freeport Port of Riga, the Latvian Office of the Procurement Monitoring said. The Russian company was the only bidder.
Pella Shipyard was founded in 1950. In 1992 the state-owned enterprise was privatized, turned Pella Holding Company comprising of the head office and a number of its subsidiaries. The plant specializes in building tugboats for Russian customers.
Freeport of Riga is situated on both banks of the River Daugava (Western Dvina). The port encompasses 6.348 ha, 13.818-m waterline. Riga port can accommodate vessels with maximum draft of 12.2 m. The bulk of freight volumes passing through the port are transit cargoes (80%), shipped to / from the CIS countries. In 2010, cargo throughput of Port of Riga rose by 2.5% y-o-y, to 30 475 million tons.