Nevsky Shipyard to lay the keel of self-propelled car and passenger ferry

On October, 7^th, 2014 the solemn keel-laying ceremony of the self-propelled ferry for crossing the river Svir in urban-type settlement Voznesenye (Leningrad region) will take place at Nevsky Shipyard.

The representatives of the Customer, Russian River Register, design organizations, equipment and materials suppliers will participate in the ceremony.

The ferry is will be built on the order of Automobile Road Department of the Leningrad region.

Shlisselburg, St. Petersburg based Nevsky Shipyard LLC, is a subsidiary of North-Western Shipping Company (part of UCL Holding). Nevsky Shipyard is one of the oldest enterprises of water transport in Russia’s the North-West. The company has been engaged in shipbuilding since 1952. The company builds mixed sea-river class vessels of various types and purposes and provides ranged repair services. Nevsky Shipyard’s slipway allows launching and lifting for repair 160-m-long vessels with dock weight of up to 3,800 tonnes.