Kaliningrad, Russia based Baltic Shipyard Yantar (member of United Shipbuilding Corporation) says it held a steel-cutting ceremony for the trawler of Project SK-3101R intended for Kamchatkar fishers on May 27, 2016.
The ceremony was attended by the management of the shipyard and representatives of the customer, Fishing Collective Farm named after V. Lenin based in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
General Director of Yantar Shipyard Eduard Yefimov said this order would give an impetus to the development of the shipyard’s strategic activity – civil shipbuilding.
Vladimir Kryuk, deputy head of the fishing farm, said in his turn that the ship would be the first trawler-seiner in Russia built by a domestic shipyard.
“Construction of fishing ships at Yantar shipyard marks the beginning of the new phase in the development of Russian fishing fleet,” he said.
The contract for construction of three trawler-seiners of Project SK-3101R was signed on January 22, 2016. The first vessel is to be laid down in July 2016, the series is to be delivered to the customer in 2018.
The SK-3101R purse seine / pelagic trawler was designed by a Norwegian engineering company Skipskompetanse A.S. that provided design, engineering drawings and technical assistance.
The fishing vessel particulars: length overall: 50.6 m, beam: 12 m, main engine rated power about 2200 kW. The vessel was designed for trawl, seine and purse seine deep-water fishing.
Kaliningrad-based Baltic Shipbuilding Plant “Yantar” (Yantar Shipyard) was founded on July 8,1945 on the basis of a Koenigsberg unit of German’s Schichau Werft. Yantar Shipyard specializes in building and repair of warships and civil boats. Throughout the years the Shipyard has built 154 warships and more than 500 merchant vessels. The Russian Government holds majority stake in the shipbuilding firm through Western Center of Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation.
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