The naming and launch ceremony for “Transsib Bridge” – a new product carrier of 05-55 series, ordered by the Sovcomflot Group – took place at the Admiralty Shipyards in St.Petersburg on 30 November 2007.
The ceremony was attended by Ilya Klebanov, Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-West Region; Valentina Matviyenko, Governor of St. Petersburg; Andrey Dutov, Head of the Federal Agency for Industry; Yury Yarov, Director General of JSC “United Shipbuilding Corporation”; as well as top management from the Sovcomflot Group and the Admiralty Shipyards.
Paying homage to colleagues in the railway industry, and reflecting the 170th Anniversary of the Russian railway, Sovcomflot decided to name the vessel “Transsib Bridge” (“Transsibirskiy Most” – in Russian). The ceremony was also attended by Vladimir Yakunin, President of JSC “Russian Railways”.
The tanker’s deadweight is 47,400 tonnes, her overall length is 182.28 metres, moulded breadth is 32.25 metres and the cruising range is more than 15,000 miles.
The ship is designed to carry up to five different types of cargo simultaneously, including oil and oil products, in 10 cargo tanks. The vessel will be assigned an additional Lloyd’s Register symbol – Environment Protection, meeting the highest ecological standards.
“Transsib Bridge” is the eighth vessel in a series of product carriers ordered by the Sovcomflot Group from the Admiralty Shipyards. “Troitsky Bridge”, “Tuchkov Bridge”, “Tower Bridge”, “Torgovy Bridge”, “Teatralny Bridge”, “Tavrichesky Bridge” and “Tverskoy Bridge” have already been providing shipping services to Sovcomflot’s customers, including such energy majors as Statoil and Navion.
During the ceremony, Sovcomflot and the Admiralty Shipyards signed an agreement of co-operation to develop the technical design and specifications for the first Russian-built LNG tanker. This will be a high-tech vessel, designed to operate year-round to transport gas on voyages of around 2,000 miles in the Baltic, Barents and Okhotsk Seas. This trade will support a government programme designed to make greater use of natural gas in satisfying demand for energy within the Russian Federation. This Agreement is part of a long-term cooperation between Sovcomflot and the Admiralty Shipyards for the construction of modern vessels to carry liquid hydrocarbons.
In another order from Sovcomflot, the Admiralty Shipyards are constructing two Arctic shuttle-tankers of 70,000 DWT, to transport crude oil from the Prirazlomnoye field in the Barents Sea (operated by Sevmorneftegaz – the subsidiary of Gazprom). The vessels will be named after stars of the Russian screen and stage – Mikhail Ulyanov and Kirill Lavrov.
JSC Sovcomflot is one of the largest national infrastructe shipping company, owning the fleet of 69 vessels of total 4.6m DWT. The newbuilding order book comprises 14 vessels with a total deadweight of 1.3 million tonnes. The company specializes in seaborne transportation of energy. 46 vessels in the Group’s fleet are tankers. All of them are double-hulled with an average age of five years – one of the world’s youngest fleets.
Admiralty Shipyards is the oldest shipyard in Russia, established by Peter the Great on 5 November 1704. Today the yards are engaged in the design, constuction and in modernisation of merchant marine vessels, as well as in construction and rebuilding of ships for the Navy. During three centuries, more than 2,600 ships have been built by the Admiralty Shipyards.
Trans-Siberian (Transsib) Railway is the longest route in the world, crossing almost the whole of Eurasia. The length of the main passenger route is 9,288.2 km. The rate of the construction of the Great Siberian Route (nowadays referred to as the Transsib Railway) astonished contemporaries – in 13.5 years (from March 1891 until September 1904) the track was constructed for trains to operate from Miass, in the Southern Urals (West to Chelyabinsk) and Kotlas, on the banks of the Northern Dvina, to Vladivostok and Port Arthur on the Pacific coast.
Today the Transsib Railway crosses the 20 Federal subjects and 5 Federal districts of the Russian Federation, representing more than 80 per cent of the country’s industrial capacity and its basic natural resources. In total, 50 per cent of Russian exports and transit cargoes are carried via the Transsib. This route is a true “Euro-Asian bridge” of paramount importance, connecting the East and the West, bringing Russia, Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States closer to the countries of Asia Pacific.
The ceremony was attended by Ilya Klebanov, Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-West Region; Valentina Matviyenko, Governor of St. Petersburg; Andrey Dutov, Head of the Federal Agency for Industry; Yury Yarov, Director General of JSC “United Shipbuilding Corporation”; as well as top management from the Sovcomflot Group and the Admiralty Shipyards.
Paying homage to colleagues in the railway industry, and reflecting the 170th Anniversary of the Russian railway, Sovcomflot decided to name the vessel “Transsib Bridge” (“Transsibirskiy Most” – in Russian). The ceremony was also attended by Vladimir Yakunin, President of JSC “Russian Railways”.
The tanker’s deadweight is 47,400 tonnes, her overall length is 182.28 metres, moulded breadth is 32.25 metres and the cruising range is more than 15,000 miles.
The ship is designed to carry up to five different types of cargo simultaneously, including oil and oil products, in 10 cargo tanks. The vessel will be assigned an additional Lloyd’s Register symbol – Environment Protection, meeting the highest ecological standards.
“Transsib Bridge” is the eighth vessel in a series of product carriers ordered by the Sovcomflot Group from the Admiralty Shipyards. “Troitsky Bridge”, “Tuchkov Bridge”, “Tower Bridge”, “Torgovy Bridge”, “Teatralny Bridge”, “Tavrichesky Bridge” and “Tverskoy Bridge” have already been providing shipping services to Sovcomflot’s customers, including such energy majors as Statoil and Navion.
During the ceremony, Sovcomflot and the Admiralty Shipyards signed an agreement of co-operation to develop the technical design and specifications for the first Russian-built LNG tanker. This will be a high-tech vessel, designed to operate year-round to transport gas on voyages of around 2,000 miles in the Baltic, Barents and Okhotsk Seas. This trade will support a government programme designed to make greater use of natural gas in satisfying demand for energy within the Russian Federation. This Agreement is part of a long-term cooperation between Sovcomflot and the Admiralty Shipyards for the construction of modern vessels to carry liquid hydrocarbons.
In another order from Sovcomflot, the Admiralty Shipyards are constructing two Arctic shuttle-tankers of 70,000 DWT, to transport crude oil from the Prirazlomnoye field in the Barents Sea (operated by Sevmorneftegaz – the subsidiary of Gazprom). The vessels will be named after stars of the Russian screen and stage – Mikhail Ulyanov and Kirill Lavrov.
JSC Sovcomflot is one of the largest national infrastructe shipping company, owning the fleet of 69 vessels of total 4.6m DWT. The newbuilding order book comprises 14 vessels with a total deadweight of 1.3 million tonnes. The company specializes in seaborne transportation of energy. 46 vessels in the Group’s fleet are tankers. All of them are double-hulled with an average age of five years – one of the world’s youngest fleets.
Admiralty Shipyards is the oldest shipyard in Russia, established by Peter the Great on 5 November 1704. Today the yards are engaged in the design, constuction and in modernisation of merchant marine vessels, as well as in construction and rebuilding of ships for the Navy. During three centuries, more than 2,600 ships have been built by the Admiralty Shipyards.
Trans-Siberian (Transsib) Railway is the longest route in the world, crossing almost the whole of Eurasia. The length of the main passenger route is 9,288.2 km. The rate of the construction of the Great Siberian Route (nowadays referred to as the Transsib Railway) astonished contemporaries – in 13.5 years (from March 1891 until September 1904) the track was constructed for trains to operate from Miass, in the Southern Urals (West to Chelyabinsk) and Kotlas, on the banks of the Northern Dvina, to Vladivostok and Port Arthur on the Pacific coast.
Today the Transsib Railway crosses the 20 Federal subjects and 5 Federal districts of the Russian Federation, representing more than 80 per cent of the country’s industrial capacity and its basic natural resources. In total, 50 per cent of Russian exports and transit cargoes are carried via the Transsib. This route is a true “Euro-Asian bridge” of paramount importance, connecting the East and the West, bringing Russia, Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States closer to the countries of Asia Pacific.