Almaz Shipyard floats out first 02690-series floating crane (photo)

Almaz Shipbuilding Company last week rolled out from its new covered shipbuilding slip onto a floating dock and floated out the mobile crane of project 02,690 (Hull No 900), the shipbuilding firm said. The crane was moored at the Almaz quay wall for further outfitting.

This is the flagship of a series of nine self-propelled floating cranes of lifting capacity ranging 35 to 150 tonnes. The crane design was developed by St. Petersburg-based engineering bureau JSC SpetsSudoProyekt for the auxiliary fleet of Russia.

Joint Stock Shipbuilding Company "Allmaz" was founded in 1933 as a shipyard of the USSR Coast Guard. Today "Almaz" is a modern enterprise with a long shipbuilding tradition specializing in the construction, upgrade and repair of high-speed coast guard border patrol vessels and boats, of large and small tonnage ships, of multipurpose hovercrafts, ships and yachts for civil sector, both for Russian and foreign customers. The company has two floating docks of capacity of 2,500 an 3,000 tonnes.