Okskaya Shipyard launches Astrol-8, tenth dry cargo vessel of RSD59 design
It is the final vessel in a series of 10 multipurpose dry cargo ships built for Astrol
The final vessel in a series of 10 multipurpose dry cargo ships of Project RSD59, Astrol-8 built for Astrol, has been launched today, 30 September 2021, the ship designer Marine Engineering Bureau said.
The series was ordered by State Transport Leasing Company with shipping company Astrol as a leaseholder.
Okskaya Shipyard is to build 18 vessels of RSD59 series. The first five will be delivered to Petrotrans, the next ten – to Astrol with the new contract signed for three more ships for Idel. The first fourteen vessels have already entered service.
The RSD59 series vessels were designed for transportation of breakbulk, bulk, container, timber, grain, and oversize cargo, dangerous goods (Classes 1.4S, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.1, 8, 9 IMDG Code and BC Code’s Appendix B in the Caspian Sea, in the Mediterranean, Black, Baltic, White, North Seas, including sailings around Europe and to the Irish Sea in the winter season.
The new series is a successor of RSD49 design which had three holds. RSD59 ships with extra full hull forms have a unique second hold, the largest among Volgo-Don Max ships.
The vessel’s class notation is КМ Ice2(hull; power) R2 АUT1-ICS BWM(T) CONT (deck, cargo holds Nos.1,2) DG (bulk, pack) of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping which meets all the requirements of international conventions in force at the time of the vessel’s laying.
Key particulars: DWT at sea with a draft of 4.706 m – 8,144 tonnes; DWT in a river with draft of 3.60 m – 5,320 tonnes. LOA: 141.0 m, breadth overall: 16.98 m, depth: 6.00 m. The cargo holds a capacity: 11,400 cbm. Operating speed: 10.5 knots. Endurance (sea): 20 days. Crew – 11. The ship has accommodations for 14 people and sanitary and pilot cabins.
The ninth cargo vessel of RSD59 design, Alexander Ivanov, was put into operation on 29 September 2021.
JSC “Okskaya shipyard”
JSC “Okskaya shipyard” is a leading Russian company with all necessary complex manufacturing facilities sufficient for the construction of medium load-carrying capacity vessels.
The shipyard is situated in Navashino, the town in the southwest of Nizhniy Novgorod region, on the Oka river and linked with major railroads, seaports, and inland waterways of the Russian Federation.
The total area of the shipyard – 528 000 m2. Covered workshop and storage area – 214 000 m2.
The company constructed 37 ships in 2011 – 2016 including:
- 10 MULTI-PURPOSE DRY CARGO MOTOR SHIPS under RSD44 project for Volga Shipping Company.
- 12 TANKERS under RST27 project for company “V.F.Tanker”.
- 9 SHIPS for different companies.
- З WORKBOATS under ST23WI project for FSUE “Rosmorport” .
- 1 MULTI-PURPOSE BUNKER under 92800 project for The Tuapse Trade Port (TTP).
- 1 FIRE-FIGHTING TUG under TG-17 project for Federal Agency for Marine and River Transport
- 1 PASSENGER-CARRYING LAUNCH * under21270 project for the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
- 11 floating bridges were built by the shipyard in 1980 – 2011
*Currently the company signed the contract for the construction of the second launch.
