Keel laying of two vessels will take place at Nevsky Shipyard LLC on April 26. As IAA PortNews was informed by the company, the keel laying ceremony for the tanker of project 23130 for RF Ministry of Defence will be attended by the representatives of the Ministry of Defence and the General Staff of RF Navy. Neva-Leader 8, the eighth dry cargo carrier of project RSD49 for North-Western Shipping Company, will be laid down the same day.
On November 1st, 2013, the Federal Agency for Weaponry, Military and Special Equipment and Material facilities Procurement (Rosoboronpostavka), representative of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, and Nevsky Shipyard, LLC signed the State Contract for the construction of sea tanker 23130 project. Nevsky Shipyard got the right to conclude the State Contract having won the open competitive tender.
Major characteristics:
length overall – 130 m
breadth overall – about 21 m
draught overall – about 7,0 m
deadweight at draught 7,0 m – about 9,000 t
maximum speed – 16 knots
endurance – 60 days
ship’s crew – 24 persons
sailing area – unlimited in accordance with ship’s class according to the rules of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
Under the signed State Contract the tanker is to be delivered in the end of 2016.
Neva-Leader 8 is the eighth in the series of 10 vessels of project RSD49 being built by Nevsky Shipyard for North-Western Shipping Company. The lead vessel of project RSD49, Neva-Leader 1, was laid down on December 14, 2010, floated out on May 20, 2012 and put into service on November 26, 2012. As of today, the shipping company operates first seven vessels of the project.
The Volga-Don Max vessels with deadweight of over 7,000 t are designed for transportation of general and bulk cargoes, including steel, grain, timber, coal, oversized and heavy-lift and dangerous cargoes. The vessels are being built under the programme for large-scale renovation of VBTH fleet. VBTH is the shipping division of UCL Holding.
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 for repair 140-m-long vessels with dock weight of up to 3,000 tonnes.