North-Eastern Basin Branch News

Pilot’s service of the Vanino Branch performs the first pilotage of tug/barge towing arrangements carrying large-sized equipment for building the Amur gas processing plant

Pilots of the Vanino Branch Viktor Khmarin and Andrei Dyundyuk have successfully piloted the first two convoys of tug/barge towing arrangements carrying large-sized equipment to build the Amur gas processing plant.

The De Kastri and the Komsomolsk-on-Amur tugs have towed shoal draft barges carrying large-sized equipment to the destination point – the seaport of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur from the water area of the seaport of De Kastri.

Pilots of the Vanino Branch have shown professionalism in piloting the cargo-carrying tug/barge towing arrangements of over 88 meters length along the winding Southern fairway of the Amurskiy estuary.

Upon safe arrival at the seaport of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur tug convoys will move to their destination point under pilotage of river pilots of FSBI “The Administration of the Inland Waterways Basin”.