14.08.2014 11:55 / shipbuilding news, shipbuilding news, day of sea and river fleet workers, ceremony, mistral, arctech

Weekly News. Week 28 (7 to 11 July)

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St. Petersburg celebrated the Day of Sea and River Fleet Workers. The official ceremony on Petrovskaya embankment was opened with a memorial action. The representatives of the Russian Ministry of Transport, members of the St. Petersburg Government and the St. Petersburg Maritime Council, employees of the Northwestern Territorial Administration of the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency and representatives of other maritime organizations laid flowers near the monument to the sailors and fathers of the Russian fleet.

The Public Council of the Russian Ministry of Transport signed the Development Strategy of Seaport Infrastructure of the Russian Federation for 2030, which implies the increase in the cargo turnover of seaports up to 1 billion tons. The largest projects covered by the document are construction of Sabetta port; integrated development of Murmansk transportation hub; development of Primorsk and Ust-Luga ports, container terminals in Big port of St. Petersburg; and construction of Bronka Multipurpose Marine Handling Terminal.

The engineers of the Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering department celebrated their graduation from the St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University. This year 106 engineers graduated from the department. Among them, 50 per cent got excellent marks for their diploma thesis; 40 per cent got good marks and only 10 per cent got satisfactory marks. At least 15 per cent of the graduates received diplomas with honors

Recently became known the results of the tender for state subsidies granted for implementing integrated high-technology production projects. The winner is Dalzavod Shiprepair Centre. The state subsidy for innovation activity will amount to 190 million rubles. Dalzavod has become the only representative of the Far East in the list of winners.

The Marshal Gelovani and Admiral Vorontsov vessels will stay in the Arctic, South China and East China Seas for more than three months. They will collect data to amend the navigation charts, manuals and textbooks.

Yantar Shipyard, Kaliningrad, won the contest organized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. The successful completion of the three serial frigates of Type 11356 for the Indian Navy last year was of particular importance in connection with this. On 29 June 2013, the last Trikand (Bow) frigate of this series was delivered to the Indian Navy.

In June, Vostochny Port, Primorye, achieved its all-time high. In the first six months, the production and handling facilities of the port transshipped 10 761 797 tons of coal products, which is 21.7 per cent more than in the first half of 2013.

Shipbuilding and Shiprepair

The Sovcomflot and Sakhalin Energy group of companies signed the contracts for construction and long-term operation of three multipurpose support icebreakers of offshore production platforms for Sakhalin-2 project. The contract time is 20 years.

In three weeks the aft of the second helicopter carrier of type Mistral named Sevastopol will arrive at Saint-Nazaire, France, to be docked to the vessel bow. The helicopter carrier is planned to be launched in October 2014. Then the ship will sail to Russia to be equipped. The delivery to the Russian Navy is scheduled for autumn 2015.

Stapel Central Design Bureau developed documents for modernizing the T-101 barge of Type 183BM to level U2 (implying such a condition of the modernized ship that provides for safe operation of the ship for min. ten years) and for re-equipping the barge to get a passenger non-self-propelled vessel. The original vessel was designed for transporting mineral construction materials. The re-equipped vessel will be used for transporting passengers. Passenger capacity: 82 in number. Crew capacity: 2 in number.

On 8 July 2014, they launched the Mangust high-speed patrol boat of Type 12150 constructed for the Border Guard of Federal Security Service of Russia. The Mangust high-speed patrol boat of Type 12150 is designed for on-call activity in the territorial waters; checking the ships to comply with the established navigation mode on the internal and external roadsteads in ports and harbours as well as in adjacent littoral areas.

On 10 July 2014, Vyborg Shipyard and Arctech Helsinki Shipyard signed a subcontract. Vyborg Shipyard will build sections and blocks for an emergency rescue vessel being designed by Aker Arctic.
Also, Vyborg Shipyard shall supply more than 4 thousand tons of steel hull structures.

On 10 July 2014, Okskaya Shipyard, Navashino, launched the lead Balt Flot 1 combined river-sea platform tanker of Type RST54. The platform tanker ordered by BF Tanker, St. Petersburg, has been launched today. The Balt Flot 1 is the first of ten ordered vessels.
All the ten serial ships are planned to have been completed by October 2015.

Incidents and Accidents:

On 7 July, a small vessel carrying five Swedish tourists and a Norwegian guide sank in the Barents Sea near the northern coast of Norway. One person has died.

In the port of Vanino, Khabarovsk Territory, the Lady Fox motorship under the flag of the Comoro Islands was arrested. The reason is 65 thousand dollars debt to the crew. Earlier the ship was prohibited to leave the port because of critical faults. Then the court arrested the ship based on the transport prosecutor's claim brought for unpaid salaries. According to Mr. Osichansky referring to the Lady Fox captain, the ship may not make voyages as she can sink at any time. However, the shipowner's representative wants the sailors to ship out. The crew has refused and required to pay salaries and buy return tickets.

On 5 July, on the Sheksna River, near Cherepovets, a sailing yacht lost control and capsized. EMERCOM, Vologda region, informs that on the Sheksna River fairway, near buoy 165, a sailing yacht turned over. Rescuers arrived just in time, rescued three persons and towed the yacht to the shore using a boat.

Finnish 15-m yacht owned by the famous pop singer, was damaged near Tallinn beacon and was getting to sink. In the accident, on board the yacht there was her owner, singer Jari Sillanpää, and seven more persons. No one was hurt. Estonian rescuers saved all the passengers.

On 9 July, in the Aleshkinskaya channel (the Ob River), the ramped barge crane fell into the water. The auto crane fell from the barge towed by the Skat ship. The incident took place 30 km from the Aleshkinskaya channel fairway (885-km point of the Ob River). Navigation continues in the normal mode.

At the 2256-km point of the Volga River behind the fairway edge, the Volgoneft-231 motor ship took the bottom. The shipowner is BashVolgotanker, Samara. The ship sailed along the Samara-Caucasus route carrying 4311 tons of fuel oil on board. There are neither victims, nor oil spills. Navigation continues in the normal mode. The Gorizont motor ship sailed to the scene of the accident. On 9 July, the Volgoneft-141 motor ship refloated the Volgoneft-231 causing no damage.

In the Yaroslavl region, Rybinsk district, at the 462-km point of the fairway, the Bazalt cargo motorship carrying gravel took the bottom. The ship was damaged. On board the ship there were thirteen persons, no one was hurt. No oil spill is detected. The ship sailed from the village of Ropruchey near Petrozavodsk to the village of Norskoye.

In the morning of 11 July, the passenger ferry sailing between the Pacific Islands of Vanuatu capsized 3.5 km from Efate island. On board the ship there were forty-one persons. Only thirty-seven of them were saved. Other people are being searched for. New passenger ships and fishing boats arrive to the place to provide assistance.

Foreign Colleagues

BC Ferries Company will cooperate with Remontowa Shipbuilding Shipyard, Gdansk, Poland, to build three vessels. They are to be the first diesel- and LNG-operated vessels. Two new vessels will replace obsolete ferries – the Queen of Burnaby and the Queen of Nanaimo built 50 years ago. The third vessel will be in reserve.
The vessels are planned to be completed in August 2016, October 2016 and February 2017. New 105-m vessels are designed to transport 145 cars and 600 passengers.

Atlantic Towing US company ordered four vessels of Type Damen PSV 5000. The vessels are being built under the 10-year contract with ExxonMobil Canada and Hibernia Management and Development Company. They will operate in heavy subarctic waters of the Hibernia and Hebron fields near the Island of Newfoundland and Labrador Peninsula. The contract also stipulates the Damen service centre opening in the city of Saint John's.

Lade AS Design Bureau, Norway, is designing a new Vindskip (Wind Ship) vessel using the contrary wind force for towing. According to the designers, the vessel will consume 60 per cent less fuel and will be much more environmentally friendly. The idea to use the contrary wind force for towing is based on the principle of the aircraft wing lift. The vessel has a very unusual streamline form. The designers expect that at a speed of 16 knots the wing effect will create up to 45 per cent of towing required for motion.

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME), South Korea, won the tender for construction of nine LNG tankers. On 8 July in Seoul, South Korea, Mitsui OSK Lines Company, Japan, and Teekay Company, Canada, in cooperation with China Shipping LNG Company signed a contract for construction of three and six tankers of Arc7 class (170 m3), respectively, for Yamal LNG.

Evergreen shipping group, Taiwan, has accepted a new containership Ever Lucky of L-type model to the fleet. The Ever Lucky ship will sail along the Evergreen route: from Far East to the US West Coast. The 8452 TEU ship was built by Samsung Heavy Industries, South Korea. The program implies construction of thirty L-type ships. Twenty of them were ordered by Samsung Heavy Industries, and the rest ten by Taiwanese shipyard of CSBC Corporation. In July 2012 the first vessel was delivered to Evergreen.

The Panama Canal has a competitor. Construction of a new canal is scheduled for this year. Its length will be 278 km, more than a third of the length to fall at Lake Nicaragua. The project cost is estimated at 40 billion dollars, and the main investor is HKND Group, China.

On 11 July, the Chinese research expedition is going from Shanghai to Arctic. Scientists and researchers from different countries will sail on board the Suelo (Snow dragon) ship. This expedition will be the sixth over the last 15 years and will last for 76 days. The expedition will study the increasing melting of the Arctic ice, which has growing global impacts on the planet climate.