A keel laying ceremony was held Monday at Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. for the first of six ships in the project 42К Arctic Shuttle Tanker series.
All six ships of the series will be named after the famous Russian explorers of the Arctic, including participants to the Great Northern Expedition of the 18-th century. The ships are being built to the dual RS/LR class. SCF Group is the shipowner of three tankers of the series.
All tankers of the series are intended for operation in high latitudes at temperatures up to – 45 °С under conditions of year-round navigation. They are designed with due regard to all applicable RS requirements, international regulations and standards. The ships will provide crude oil transportation from the Gulf of Ob area. Completion of construction and delivery of the prototype ship to a customer is scheduled for late June 2016. It is planned to complete the series construction in 2017.
Main particulars:
- length – 248.00 m;
- breadth – 34.00 m;
- depth – 15.00 m;
- design draught – 9.50 m;
- deadweight – 42 000 t.
Source & Image Credit : Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
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