Palmali Group takes delivery of Bakhtiyar Vahabzade, sixth tanker of RST22M project (photo)
On March 15, 2013, Palmali Group took delivery of the 7,100-dwt Bakhtiar Vahabzade, the sixth tanker of RST22M project (construction number 17) built by Yalova-based Besiktash Shipyard (Turkey), says press center of Marine Engineering Bureau, the series projector.
The Project RST22M product tankers are successors of Project 005RST01, or "Armada" first series. The Armada serial ships were designed by Marine Engineering Bureau for Palmali Group and built at the shipyards of Selah and ADA in Tuzla (Turkey) in 2002 -2006. The Project RST22m is the evolution of the 2nd series tankers (Project RST22), which were built at Nizhny Novgorod-based Krasnoye Sormovo in 2008-2009. All in all, there were built ten vessels of project 005RST01 and seven vessels of project RST22. The tankers of RST22M, RST22 and 005RST01 projects feature full revolving rudder propellers, increased trunk and submersible cargo pumps. They have no longitudinal bulkhead in CL and no framing in cargo tanks.
The tankers of the first Armada the New Armada types have been engaged in 'river-sea' transportation of crude oil, fuel oil, diesel fuel and other petroleum products and vegetable oils. The vessels also carry the commodities on the shipping lanes in the Caspian, Black, Mediterranean, Baltic and North Seas, including the routes around Europe and in the Irish Sea.
The new series tankers satisfy the Volga-Don Canal and the Volga-Baltic dimensions. RST22M project vessel general characteristics: length overall - 139.95 m, breadth - 16.6 m, depth – 6.0 m.
The vessels’ class is Volgo-Don Max.
As compared with the first series of Armada, the new tankers have a reinforced maritime function, deadweight in sea increased by 750 tons and increased capacity of cargo tanks with preserved possibilities in river.
The vessels fully meet new international requirements to transportation of vegetable oils including two-compartment subdivision.
The design complies with the specific requirements of Russian and global oil companies, additional ecological restrictions of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping «ECO PROJECT» (ECO-S).
The capacity of six cargo tanks and two slop tanks is 8,089 cubic meters, deadweight in sea – 7,103 tons with the draft of 4.60 m, deadweight in river – 4,706 tons with the draft of 3.60 m, service speed – 10.5 knots.
All in all, the third series was to consist of ten vessels (under the contract plus five in the option). The first Armada series also consisted of ten tankers, the second – ten as well (in fact, five vessels were built for Palmali).
The lead ship of project RST22M, the Mubariz Ibragimov (construction number 12) was laid down on December 11, 2009, launched on December 20, 2010 and put into operation on February 15, 2011.
As it was reported earlier, in late May 2011 Palmali Group extended the order of vessels of the forth Armada series of project RST22M from 10 to 15 vessels. All vessels are to be built by Besiktas Shipyard by the end of 2013.
Palmali Group is a shipping company operating in the Mediterranean, Caspian and Black Seas.
Palmali Group is a major carrier of oil companies SOCAR (Azerbaijan) and LUKOIL (Russia) on the southern lines. The Group has been awarded long-term contracts for transportation of petroleum products with TNK-BP.
Besiktas Shipyard founded in 2007 is a part of Besiktas Group, comprising shipping and shipbuilding assets.