The Ivan Cheremesinov dredger acquired by FSUE “Rosmorport” in May 2012 was transferred to the ownership of the Astrakhan Branch. The vessel represents a sea all-purpose hopper pipe-line dredger with a bucket crane, with hold of 1015 m3 and maximum intake depth up to 15 meters. It is designed for dredging and aggradational works on shipways and at berths of port and other hydraulic engineering structures in narrow places, and also along piers and berth walls where it is unprofitable to use chain-and-bucket dredgers.

Using a dredger will enable the Astrakhan Branch to reduce costs of dredging repair works, provide operational efficiency and higher quality of works on maintaining the guaranteed dimensions, and also navigation safety in the limit sections of the Volga-Caspian sea canal during the whole navigation period.

On July 15 the dredger left the Astrakhan seaport for the Volga-Caspian sea canal water area in order to conduct dredging works. 


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The Ivan Cheremisinov dredger was built in 2002 on the Astilleros de Murueta shipyard in Gernika-Lumo, Spain, and was originally called the Mundakako Itsasadarra. In 2009 the vessel was renamed into the AMAL. It was used for dredging works in Marocco for a long time. In 2012 the dredger was acquired from the Drapor company and renamed into the Ivan Cheremesinov in honor of Ivan Cherenesinov-Karaulov, a Russian military man and politician of the 17th century, and the first waywode of Arkhangelsk from 1556 till 1559.