The lead chemical tanker of Project 00216М, PortNews, being built by Astrakhan Shipbuilding Production Association (ASPO, a company of USC) for Volgotrans LLC under the leasing programme of Mashpromleasing will be delivered in 2020, as scheduled and approved by the customer, IAA PortNews correspondent cites USC President Aleksey Rakhmanov as telling journalists.
“The tanker will be delivered in 2020 ... There's no cause for thinking otherwise”, said the head of USC.
Astrakhan Shipbuilding Production Association (ASPO, a company of United Shipbuilding Corporation) held a keel-laying ceremony for two chemical tankers of Project 00216М on 4 September 2018.
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