On March 21, ZNT Yard (ZNT OJSC) signed a contract with the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on construction of six large surveying boats of Project 23040Г, the shipyard says. The lead boat is to be delivered to the customs in a year and a half.
The boat is intended for high precision bottom surveying and inspection of navigational hazards at the depth of up to 400 meters as well as for bottom surveying with a single-beam echosounder at the depth of up to 2,000 meters; servicing of all types of buoys; installation and removing of all types of buoys of up t to 1.7 t and up to 6.5 m; delivery of personnel, food, spare parts and repair teams to nonfloating aids to navigation; navigational and hydrographic support of search and rescue operations; piloting and leading of submarines and large capacity ships at naval bases and approaches.
The self-propelled single-deck steel hull boat has an aluminum superstructure and two-shaft diesel propulsion system with a bow thruster.
Vessel general characteristics: LOA – 33.04 m, breadth – 6.8 m, depth – 3.4 m, mean draft – 1.6 m, full displacement – about 192.7 tonnes, deadweight – 39 t, speed – about 12.7+0.3 knots, propulsion system: main 2x248kW.
JSC Nizhny Novgorod Motor Vessel Yard (ZNT Yard), based in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region, was founded in 1911. Today, the shipbuilding firm with its in-house design bureau specializes in the construction of supply and auxiliary fleet, harbor equipment and marine engines and provides a broad range of services.