On June 01, 2007, the second dry-cargo ship project RSD19 "Iran Nowshahr", built at Volgograd Shipyard (MNP Group) for Irinvestship Limited (Iran), was handed over to the customer. The acceptance certificate was signed in Astrakhan, where the vessel passed performance trial. The contact for building a series of river-sea-going dry-cargo ships project RSD19 was signed by Volgograd Shipyard and Irinvestship Limited in August, 2005. Four ships are scheduled to be built within two years upon signature of the contract. The lead ship was handed over to the customer in February, 2007. Maximum length of the ship is 140 m, width – 16.70 m, depth – 6 m, deadweight (sea/river) -6,750/4,343 mt, cargo capacity (sea/river) – 6,325/4,100 mt. The design was worked out by Mariine Engineering Bureau (Odessa, Ukraine) for class КМ*ЛУ 2 1 IА1 of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping and meets all the requirements of international conventions. According to the Bureau classification, the vessel refers to the “Volgo-Don max” class – the higher class for operation in the sea and higher hull strength standard. The multi-purpose dry-cargo ship has the maximum for the Volga-Don route overall dimensions and is designed for transportation of general and bulk cargo, timber and large-size cargo, 8.5-9-ft international standard containers. The ship is fitted with 4 cargo tanks of total capacity 10,800 cubic m, capacity of ballast tanks is 3,900 cubic m, sea endurance is 4,000 miles, loaded speed is 10.5 knots, the crew is 13/16 people. The designed service life of the hull is 24 years.
MNP Group is engaged in shipbuilding and offshore units design and construction. MNP Group incorporates the leading Russian shipyards: Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard (Nizhniy Novgorod) and Volgograd Shipyard, as well as Sormovskoye Mashinostroeniye (Nizhniy Novgorod), Volgograd special engineering plant, Volgo-Caspian Design Bureau (Nizhniy Novgorod) and Friede & Goldman (USA).