PRISCO began construction of 50,000-tonne tankers at STX Shipyard in S. Korea

The steel cutting for the new ship of PRISCO was held at STX Shipyard in South Korea. The new vessel is the first of seven tankers of 51,000 tons deadweight each.

As Konstantin Globenko, Director of Fleet Technical Department of PRISCO, says the new tankers will be the first vessels in the world built with Winterization class D according to new rules for shipbuilding and operation under the conditions of negative degrees worked out by Lloyd’s Register.

All ships of the new series will be double hulled and fitted with special systems and equipment providing tankers with safe operation and transportation of bulk liquid cargoes under the conditions of negative degrees.