The 13,000-dwt tanker project 19619 for Palmali Group (Turkey, registered at Malta) has been launched at Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard, MNP Group, information agency Nizhni Novgorod reports. The contract with Palmali Group provisions construction of three tankers of the same project. Two of them are to be delivered to the customer in November 2007, the third one will be built by November 2008.
The tanker is capable of operating in different climatic conditions, in regions of moderate cold marine climate. Its length is 150 m, width – 17.30 m, depth – 10.5 m, draught – 6.99 m, loaded speed is 10 knots, sea endurance is 20 days. This is the largest vessel in the Caspian Sea, capable of entering any port and put into other seas through Volga-Don Ship Canal without port terminal re-equipment. The river-sea-going tanker is designed for transportation of crude oil and oil products with flash point less than 60°С. The vessel is capable of carrying two types of cargoes in a voyage. Class of the vessel - КМ Л1 I I А1 of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.
MNP group (Marine and Oil Projects) is an international company managing projects in shipbuilding and engineering of offshore drilling platforms. MNP Group incorporates the leading Russian shipyards: Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard (Nizhniy Novgorod), Volgograd Shipyard, as well as Sormovskoye Mashinostroeniye (Nizhniy Novgorod), Volgograd Special Engineering Plant, Volgo-Caspian Design Bureau (Nizhniy Novgorod) and Friede & Goldman (USA).
The tanker is capable of operating in different climatic conditions, in regions of moderate cold marine climate. Its length is 150 m, width – 17.30 m, depth – 10.5 m, draught – 6.99 m, loaded speed is 10 knots, sea endurance is 20 days. This is the largest vessel in the Caspian Sea, capable of entering any port and put into other seas through Volga-Don Ship Canal without port terminal re-equipment. The river-sea-going tanker is designed for transportation of crude oil and oil products with flash point less than 60°С. The vessel is capable of carrying two types of cargoes in a voyage. Class of the vessel - КМ Л1 I I А1 of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.
MNP group (Marine and Oil Projects) is an international company managing projects in shipbuilding and engineering of offshore drilling platforms. MNP Group incorporates the leading Russian shipyards: Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard (Nizhniy Novgorod), Volgograd Shipyard, as well as Sormovskoye Mashinostroeniye (Nizhniy Novgorod), Volgograd Special Engineering Plant, Volgo-Caspian Design Bureau (Nizhniy Novgorod) and Friede & Goldman (USA).