Nevsky Shipyard launches second bulker of RSD49 project Neva-Leader 2 for NW Shipping
Shlisselburg-based Nevsky Shipyard held an official launching and naming ceremony for the second vessel of capacity of 7,000mt is a series of
dry bulk carriers of RSD49 project ordered by North-Western Shipping Company. The vessel was christened “Neva-Leader 2,” the shipbuilder’s press service said.
Overall, the NW Shipping ordered 12 vessels of RSD49 project. Ten serial bulkers will be constructed at Nevsky Shipyard, two ships to be built at Astrakhan-based Lotus Shipyard. The lead ship of the series was outfitted at Petrozavodsk-based Onega docks and launched this May. The vessel is expected to be commissioned in the fall of 2012.
The Volga-Don Max vessels of mixed river-sea sailing are designed for transportation of general and bulk cargoes, including steel, grain, timber, coal, oversized and heavy-lift and dangerous cargoes of classes 1.4S, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.1, 8, 9 by IC IMDG and Annex B of the BC Code in the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Baltic, White and North seas, including sailings around Europe and in the Irish Sea during winter season.
The series vessel (in contrast to other Volga-Don max class ships created by Marine Engineering Bureau) features a 52-m-long middle cargo hold for shipping oversized project cargo on direct Europe - Caspian Sea lane. This should make the vessel operation cost-effective.
The project was designed to CM Ice2 R2 AUT1-C of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping and meets all the requirements of international conventions, effective as of the vessel’s keel-laying.
Currently, the RSD49 vessels (like its prototype RSD19) are by far the largest of dry cargo ships that satisfy the dimensions of Volga-Don Shipping Canal.
Ship’s main characteristics: sea / river draft – 4.70m / 3.60m, sea / river DWT – 7150t / 4520t; length overall - 139.95 m, breadth overall - 16.70 m, depth - 6.00 m; cargo holds capacity - 10,920 cbm.
Nevsky Shipyard LLC, a subsidiary of JSC North-Western Shipping Company (part of UCL Holding), is located 40 km from Saint-Petersburg in Shlisselburg on the left bank of the Neva River. The company has been engaged in shipbuilding since 1952. Nevsky Shipyard builds sea-going and river vessels of various types and purposes and provides all kinds of ship repair. Nevsky Shipyard’s slipway allows launching and lifting 140-m-long vessels with dock weight of up to 2500 tons.