On December 19, new tugboat Ural joined the port fleet of Vostochny Port JSC, the Company’s press center says.
The tugboat was built under the Company’s modernization programme initiated by Managing Port Company LLC and launched in 2010, says Vadim Baibak, chief dispatcher of Vostochny Port JSC.
The keel of the new ship was laid in November,2014 at Damen’s shipyard in China and launched in autumn, 2015. On December 14, upon completion of all necessary trials, the boat left port Shanghai for port Vladivostok, her homeport. The Ural Will be the most powerful tugboat of the Company’s oprt fleet (almost 5.400 h.p., ice class Arc4).
Experts say the Ural will let accelerate mooring operations at the port – two more operations per day.
Vostochny Port JSC is the largest coal stevedore in Russia. Managing Port Company LLC is the sole executive body of Vostochny Port JSC. The fleet of Vostochny Port numbers three ship-towing tug, an azimuth tug and an estuary launch.