Russian Civil Shipbuilding Sector

Scientific ship for the arctic making progress.

Kaliningrad, Russia based Baltic Shipyard Yantar (a company of United Shipbuilding Corporation) has won a competition for construction of a 7MW multifunction salvage vessel of Project MPSV06M, says the Federal Marine and River Transport Agency (Rosmorrechflot) referring to the State Customer Directorate.

The results of the competition were published by the Unified Information System on 10 June 2021.

The ship designed by Marine Engineering Bureau will be built for Marine Recue Service.

Two ships of that design, the Beringov Proliv and the Murman, are already being operated by Marine Recue Service with one more ship under construction at Amursky shipyard.

Yantar will build the first ship of Project MPSV06 that has underwent modernization.

Project MPSV06M meets the 2021 RS Rules and the Polar Code. It features the enhanced capacity of the cargo crane that can now operate in stormy weather.

Multi-purpose MPSV06M salvage icebreaker vessel has Icebreaker 6 class and unrestricted area of navigation; she has ice-breaker stem and cruiser aft end, enlarged double-tier forecastle and living quarters located fore. There are also a diesel-electric power station with ER located in the middle part of hull, two full-circle rudder propellers and bow thrusters. The helicopter landing platform is located on the fore part of ship.

Thanks to her equipment the ship can participate in fire-fighting operations, combating oil spills, search and rescue operations, emergency towing even in extreme weather conditions while her onboard hospital facilities enable the medical treatment of people who have been saved.

The ship will be able to perform icebreaking operations in port water areas and in freezing non-Arctic seas with ice thickness of up to 1.5 meters, provide assistance in fire combating on floating objects and coastal ones accessible from seaside, conduct investigation of sea floor and damaged objects when depth is less than 1000 meters. The ship can operate in the Northern Sea Route waters.

Kaliningrad-based Baltic Shipbuilding Plant “Yantar” (Yantar Shipyard) was founded on July 8, 1945 on the basis of a Koenigsberg unit of German’s Schichau Werft. Yantar Shipyard specializes in building and repair of warships and civil boats. Throughout the years the Shipyard has built 160 warships and more than 500 merchant vessels. The Russian Government holds majority stake in the shipbuilding firm through Western Center of Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation.

That thing is hardly a ship, it is a floating scientific base that can relocate on its own, but it is semantic only.
Quite interesting approach.

A Russian "green" tanker of the "Aframax" type was launched from the slipway of the Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex. This is the second vessel in a series of 12 large-capacity tankers with a deadweight of 114 thousand tons. The lead tanker Vladimir Monomakh was handed over to the customer in December 2020.

This powerful new generation tanker is designed to carry oil in an unlimited navigation area. The vessel is designed in compliance with high environmental safety standards. The main and auxiliary power plants can operate on both traditional and environmentally friendly fuel - liquefied natural gas, which meets the new world environmental standards.

The length of the vessel is 250 meters, width is 44 meters, deadweight is 114 thousand tons, speed is 14.6 knots, ice class is ICE-1A.

The Aframax tanker was launched using the Vympel transport and transfer dock, one of the largest in Russia.

Currently, the tanker has been towed to the outfitting quay, where the mooring stage of tests will be organized: work on checking the systems and equipment of the vessel for further preparation for sea trials and handover to the customer.

To date, the portfolio of Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex includes 12 Aframax tankers, 10 of which are ordered by Rosnefteflot JSC (a specialized subsidiary of Rosneft Oil Company). At the moment, six Aframax tankers are being manufactured and assembled in the workshops and on the stocks of the enterprise.

Novatek plans to build five LNG carriers a year at the Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex in the Primorsky Territory. Eduard Gudkov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of PAO NOVATEK, provided such data during the Eastern Economic Forum, a PortNews correspondent reported . “The implementation of our projects in the future, in fact, creates the preconditions for five LNG carriers to leave the stocks of this shipyard in the next 15 years,” said a company representative.

Currently, Novatek has placed an order at the plant for the construction of 15 ice-class gas carriers.

Sovcomflot, NOVATEK and Far Eastern Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Center have signed an agreement to develop a ship repair cluster in the Russian Far East. The ceremony took place on the eve of the VI Eastern Economic Forum as part of a trilateral workshop at the Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex in Primorsky Krai.

The agreement was signed by Andrey Shishkin, CEO of FESRC and Vice President for Energy, Localisation and Innovation of Rosneft; Igor Tonkovidov, President and CEO of Sovcomflot, and Sergey Frank, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SMART LNG.

The agreement provides for expanding the cooperation between the parties in servicing and repairing vessels and vessel equipment using the facilities of the ship repair cluster.

The same day at Zvezda, a keel-laying ceremony was held for a new 51,000-dwt MR product carrier ordered by SCF to transport gas condensate in the Baltic under a 20-year time charter to NOVATEK. The vessel is designed to use LNG as its primary fuel. In total, SCF ordered from Zvezda three such tankers scheduled for delivery during 2022-2023.

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The tender for the construction of the lead hydrographic pilot ship of the ice class Arc7 was declared invalid. As indicated in the minutes of the competition, no applications were submitted for it. The maximum contract price was 7 billion 67.18 million rubles.

The customer is the Federal Hydrographic Enterprise (Rosatom State Corporation).