Almaz Shipyard (Saint-Petersburg) launches forth serial floating crane for Russian Ministry of Defense (photo)
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St. Petersburg, Russia based Shipbuilding Company Almaz has launched the forth serial floating crane of project 02690 (No 902) built for the Russian Defense Ministry, the shipbuilder said.
Overall, the shipbuilding firm was contracted to build nine 02690-series cranes for the Defense Ministry. The series flagship was laid down on May 17, 2013 and floated out on May 6, 2014.
Two more cranes are to be built by the end of the current year.
Joint Stock Shipbuilding Company "Almaz" was founded in 1933 as a shipyard of the USSR Coast Guard. Today St. Petersburg headquartered Almaz is a modern enterprise with a long shipbuilding tradition specializing in the construction, conversion, outfitting 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 2,500 to 3,000 tonnes.