Sredne-Nevskiy Shipyard (SNSY, Saint-Petersburg) plans to build a passenger catamaran of composite materials in 2014. According to the shipyard’s technical manager Aleksey Pishchugin, the vessel’s passenger capacity will be 150 persons and it will replace obsolete Meteors in Saint-Petersburg, IAA PortNews journalist reports.
The project of the catamaran was designed by the Central Design Bureau Neptune. As compared with Meteor, the catamaran will feature improved nautical characteristics, ability to work at night and higher comfort for passengers in heavy sea.
Three-layer composite material comprising carbon fabrics and foamed plastics will be used for the construction. Carbon fabrics will be supplied by Russian manufacturers while the resin is to be imported.
One of the advantages of the new catamaran will be low weight which is to make its operation more commercially efficient. Norway has an experience in building vessels under this technology.
In the future, the shipyard is going to continue the construction of such catamarans.
Sredne-Nevskiy Shipyard (Saint-Petersburg) was founded in 1912. It has already built over 500 ships and vessels to 43 different projects for RF Navy and foreign customers. Currently, the shipyard builds missile boats, minesweepers, passenger and work vessels of different purposes and is getting ready for a large-scale construction of the new generation mine countermeasures ships for RF Navy and foreign customers.
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