Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard (United Shipbuilding Corporation) has delivered the fifth vessel in a series of six tugboats built to the order of LLC P.Trans Co. for the needs of Severstal, the shipbuilder's press release said. The tug has been named Altair.
The third and the forth tugs of the series were delivered in May-June 2015.
The package contract with P.TransCo LLC was signed in February 2013. Gazprombanklizing LLC is the financial partner.
The Integrated Tug/Barge design was developed by SpetsSudoProekt CJSC with the participation of the customer and the shipyard. The design complies with the requirements of Russian River Register to М3.0 (Ice 10) А Class.
The vessel is to perform pushing or emergency towing of barges with total displacement of about 5,200 tonnes at a speed of 10 knots.
The main feature of the boat is ARTICOUPLER KVC3545 frictional coupler by Taisei Engineering Consultant Inc, Japan, allowing significant relative rolling of the tug boat and barge and thus making it possible to use the tug boat and barge in the nearest sea area as well as to reduce the time required for coupling/uncoupling the tug and barge down to 30 seconds.
Construction of the sixth tug, the Toliman, is nearing completion. In the nearest future, the vessel will commence the sea trials.
OJSC Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard, a part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, was created in 1912. The shipyard has built over 500 warships and vessels of 43 designs for the Russian Navy and foreign customers. The shipyard is building missile boats, trawlers, passenger and work vessels for various purposes and is about to start the large-scale construction of mine warships of the new generation for the Russian Navy and foreign countries.
Today, the shipyard is the leader of composite shipbuilding in Russia and the only plant in the country to build warships and civil vessels of 4 types of materials: composite materials, shipbuilding steel, nonmagnetic steel, aluminum and fiberglass. The shipyard has mastered the technology of building hulls of composite materials through vacuum infusion method.
United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC OJSC) is the largest shipbuilding company in Russia. It was set up in 2007 with 100% federal ownership. The holding comprises 60 companies and organizations (major shipbuilding and shiprepairing companies as well as leading design bureaus). Currently, USC consolidates about 80% of the domestic shipbuilding complex. The Russian market is the main focus of the state corporation though it also exports its products to 20 countries worldwide.
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