On July 31, 2015, the company launched its first non-self-propelled vessel (NBL-91 project) at NIBULON shipbuilding and repair yard. According to NIBULON press center, the specialists will start outfitting after the vessel is moved from the slipway to the pier.
Main dimensions: length – 90 m; breadth – 16 m; breadth overall – 16.22 m; depth – 4.2 m; draught loaded – 2.7 m; displacement – 3,750 tons; cargo hold capacity – 5,050 cubic meters. The vessel with such dimensions was launched for the first time in the shipyard’s history.
The company plans to construct at its shipyard 12 non-self-propelled vessels (NBL-91 project) with the total deadweight of 36 thousand tons. The vessels are designed for operating on shallow rivers. Their construction will promote the implementation of NIBULON’s investment program to develop new logistics system in Ukraine, and namely to revive navigation along the Southern Bug. The Southern Bug depth was up to 3 meters 20 years ago. Today its average depth is 1.65 m and in some areas - up to 1 m. The company plans to revive navigation and passenger transportation along this river.
340 Ukrainian shipbuilders are involved in constructing the NBL-91 project vessels, and every shipbuilder can be proud of them.
“It is very pleasant to realize that you have put your whole soul into important work”, shares Igor Sheremeta, a ship’s assembler (4th grade). “Today NIBULON is doing a lot to develop shipbuilding that helps both the country and people.”
Natalya Sinchenko, a painter and the vessel’s godmother, who has been engaged in shipbuilding since 1982, says, “Every new vessel is like a child. You are creating it from the very beginning. We have a well-coordinated team; impressions are very pleasant.”
NIBULON’s General Director Oleksiy Vadaturskyy and his deputies congratulated the employees. Oleksiy Vadaturskyy and shipbuilders talked over topical issues and future prospects of development; in particular, they discussed activities performed to improve labour conditions taking into account working peculiarities in summer. They also discussed bicycle parking at the shipyard and construction plans for the future. These meetings with the participation of NIBULON’s management are held regularly at the shipyard. Andriy Volik, deputy general director of fleet construction, fleet operation and navigation safety, Larysa Buryk, deputy general director of personnel, Sergiy Besedin, deputy general director of construction, and Oleksandr Grygorenko, deputy general director of trade and logistics, were present at the meeting.
At present the company is constructing at its shipyard two non-self-propelled vessels (NBL-91 project) and the C14938 project pontoon (manufacturing order 10006). The latter will be used to install a mobile transshipment crane with a capacity of 5 thousand tons per day. The crane will perform loading and unloading operations in the roads and at the transshipment terminal.
NIBULON has developed and successfully implements its production program with a one hundred percent shipyard’s workload for the next five years.