Solemn ceremony of keel laying of the main dredger with the volume of holds of 1000 м³ took place at JSC “Krasnoe Sormovo Plant” dockyard (Nizhny Novgorod) on 14 November 2014.

Deputy Minister of Transport of Russia Victor Olerskyi, General Director of FSUE “Rosmorport” Andrey Tarasenko, General Director of JSC “Krasnoe Sormovo Plant” Nikolay Zharkov, General Director of MNP Group Dmitry Hritin,  Head of Nizhny Novgorod city Oleg Sorokin and Acting Minister of Industry and Innovation of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Igor Sazonov took part in the keel laying ceremony.

FSUE “Rosmorport” is the construction project owner of three dredgers that are planned to be used in the Big Port of Saint-Petersburg, Ust-Luga and Tuapse seaport waters and on approaches to them in order to maintain the depths established to insure safe navigation.

The construction of the three vessels itself is performed by JSC “Krasnoe Sormovo Plant”, the winner of the open RFP held by the enterprise earlier.

According to the construction project the vessels will have the necessary efficient equipment for dredging corresponding to the climatic conditions of the region where it is going to be used. To widen the field of application of the vessel during dredging with sharp sand and gravel and in limited areas near piers and berths, it is planned to equip all the vessels of this line with multi-functional suspended deep-well dredging pump of «DOP 200» type with a sealed, wearproof, space-saving dredging pump of high-capacity.
 
For information:
Dredger with the volume of holds of 1000 м3 is designed to be the vessel of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping class not lower than KM R1 “Hopper Dredger” Ice1 AUT2. Architectural and structural type of vessel is the following: self-propelled, twin-screw, with auxiliary thrust device, with superstructure and pilot house.

The main dimensions of the vessel are the following:
Maximum length – 62.6 m;
Length between perpendiculars – 58.4 m;
Beam – 14.0 m;
Draft loaded – 4.25 m;
Maximum depth of dredging – 20 m;
Volume of holds – 1000 m³.