OJSC Moscow Shipbuilding & Ship Repair Yard (MSSZ, Moscow Shipyard) on September 4, 2013 signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense for a series of three Diving Support Vessels (DSV) of project 14157, the shipbuilding company said on Thursday.
The main purpose of the 14157-series DSVs is the support of diving operations, at offshore locations, harbors and littoral zones at depths of up to 60 m.
The construction will be supervised a team of the Ministry of Defense.
Main specifications:
LOA (max) - 25.0 m
Breadth (max) - 4.8 m
Depth (max) - 3.3 m
Draft (about) - 1.4 m
Displacement (about) - 82.0 tons
Speed (about) - 12.0 knots.
JSC Moscow Shipbuilding & Ship Repair Yard (MSSZ) was founded in 1936 and is one of the oldest shipyards in Russia. Throughout the years the shipyard has built more than 1,800 vessels. The company specializes in construction of river passenger ships, fishing boats and 25-m / 50-m-long luxury yachts. The full-cycle shipyard has in-house design office, docks for hull repair, fabrication, painting, outfitting and interior manufacturing.
In 2010, the company commenced the construction of new generation cruise passenger ships. The shipyard is a subsidiary of the state-owned shipbuilding conglomerate United Shipbuilding Corporation. In September 2011, the shipyard launched the project of high-speed multipurpose cutters of MRV14 project for Russian ports. Since that year Moscow Shipyard is building the packages of 27 and 12 buoy tenders of project 3050 and 3050.1, respectively. In the autumn of 2012 the shipyard started construction of on-board boats for the Russian Navy.