On March 5, STX Shipbuilding (S.Korea) launched a new tanker built for Primorsk Shipping Corporation, PRISCO press center reports. The new vessel will be named Prisco Elena. Several days before the Prisco Irina tanker returned from successful sea trials.
Both vessels are a part of a series of seven 51,000-dwt tankers. The new vessels with breadth of 32 meters and length of 183 meters are designed for transportation of crude and oil products, chemical and food products. Those double-hull vessels will have 1 А ice-class and Winterization D (-25) notation.
The PRISCO Irina is currently being prepared for the name-giving ceremony and its first voyage this March. Commissioning of the tanker is scheduled for May, 2009.
JSC Primorsk Shipping Corporation specializes in marine transportation of bulk liquid cargoes.
The Corporation operates 19 tankers with their aggregate deadweight of 1 352,777 tons. Ice class vessels including large-capacity ones equipped for operation in freezing seas conditions make up the core of the сompany’s fleet.
The Primorsk Shipping Corporation’s activities include commercial and technical management, agency services and training qualified specialists in sea transport and gas-and-oil producing industry.