Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard, a part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, presented its new promising project, innovative passenger catamaran of Project 23291 at SPIEF 2018, says the shipyard.
The vessel is intended to transport passengers to the distance of up to 1,000 km in inland water bodies and coastal areas.
Project 23291 is a modification of Project 23290. Its hull is to be built of carbon fibre composite through vacuum infusion method. The catamaran with a water jet propulsion system can accommodate 250 passengers, its length is 31 m, width – 9.3 m, draft – 1.5 m, crew - 5.
AO 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. Currently, the shipyard builds 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.