The handover notification was signed at Volgograd Shipyard on the forth dry cargo ship of Khazar type built for Irinvestship Limited of Iran. The contract for series of Khazar type dry cargo ships between Volgograd Shipyard and Irinvestship Limited was signed in August 2005. By the terms of the contract four ships should have been built in two years.
The first vessel, Iran Anzali, was handed to the customer in the second half of February 2007, second vessel, Iran Nowshahr, was in June 2007 and third Iran Amirabad – in September 2007.
The vessels are designed to run standard, bulk, timber and oversize cargoes and international standard containers with height 8.5 and 9 ft and hazardous cargoes in the Caspian Sea, Mediterranean, Black, White, and North Seas, including routes around Europe and to Sea of Ireland in wintertime. The vessel has four 10,956cm total capacity cargo holds. Vessel speed loaded is 10.5 knots and personnel 13/16 people. Sea and river endurance is 20 and 10 days, respectively.
The vessel length is 140 m, width 16.70 m, hull height 6m, deadweight at sea/river 7,004/4,596, tonnage in sea/river 6,325/4,100. The vessel was designed by the Maritime Design Bureau (Odessa) for class КМ*LU 2 1 IА1 of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping and satisfies all the requirements of international conventions. According to the classification approved at the Bureau the ship is referred as Volga-Don Max class vessel, a higher class of operation in the sea and a higher standard of hull durability.
Volgograd Shipyard has built over one thousand of tankers, trawler-seiners, crane ships, oil skimmers, hulls of dry-cargo ships and chemical tankers, diving depot ships, floating pumping stations. By the estimate of the British Royal Society of the naval architects dry-cargo ships project 006RSD05, built at the Yard for Palmali Company, are acknowledged the best among the vessels of this class. At present the Yard is engaged in building of a series of four dry-cargo ship project RSD19 for the Iranian company Irinvestship Limited. Recently the Yard has started construction of tankers project 4450 for Svithoid Tankers AB (Sweden). This is the first sea-going ice-reinforced vessel, built in Russia.