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In 2020, according to the projects of the Marine Engineering Bureau, 34 new and significantly re-equipped vessels with a total deadweight of 195.6 thousand tons (172.6 thousand tons, 27 vessels - new, 23.0 thousand tons, 7 ships - significant re-equipment and modernization of the existing fleet).
 
In March 2020, the Marine Engineering Bureau celebrated its 25^th anniversary. As of January 1, 2021, 402 vessels were built by the Bureau's projects.
 
During its existence, the Bureau has developed from a small company dealing exclusively with design tasks for the vessel's hull and scientific research commissioned by classification societies to an organization that performs almost the entire range of engineering work for shipping and shipbuilding.
 

What is put into operation in 2020:
 

FIRST, built over many years at domestic shipyards, river cruise passenger vessel "Mustai Karim" project PV300 with a passenger capacity of 329 people.
 
The vessel of the PV300 project "Mustai Karim" is unique on the Russian cruise market.
 
On August 22, 2020, a cruise vessel of mixed river-sea navigation class M-PR 3.0 of project PV300 "Mustai Karim" it came out in the first voyage with passengers from the Northern port of Moscow to St. Petersburg.
 
On the night of August 28-29, 2020, for the first time in history, a large cruise passenger vessel with passengers on board passed under the raised bridges on the Neva in St. Petersburg and docked at the English Embankment in the city center. It was Mustai Karim.
 
The purpose of the PV300 project vessel "Mustai Karim" is the river transportation of passengers along the inland water basins of the "M" category on long-distance cruise lines Moscow-St. Petersburg with crossings along the Ladoga and Onega lakes, Moscow-Astrakhan, Moscow-Rostov-on-Don with a passage through Volga-Don shipping channel.
 
Krasnoe Sormovo Shipyard (general director Mikhail Pershin) is a builder.
 
"Vodokhod" Company (general director Rishat Bagautdinov) is a Customer.
 
In 2020, the vessel made 12 voyages, including 1 corporate, in which more than 2500 people were able to assess its scale and the level of service provided.
 
Mustai Karim can be compared to a five-star hotel on the water, equipped with comfortable cabins, comfortable, functional and beautiful recreation areas: restaurants and bars with panoramic views, a wine lounge library, a unique collection of literary masterpieces and collection wines, a sports and recreation complex with sauna, hammam and professional massage therapists, large sun deck.
 
The launch of the cruise vessel of the project PV300 "Mustai Karim" into operation is a truly a unique event not only for the company "Vodokhod", but also for the entire shipbuilding and cruise industry of Russia.
 

THE FIRST IN THE WORLD crab-fishing vessel-factory "Zenith" of project ST184, specially built for crab fishing and deep processing of crab with boiling and freezing with brine.
 
On February 19, 2020, Tersan Shipyard Inc. (Yalova, Turkey) put into operation the lead crab-processor "Zenith" of ST184 project. Keel laying took place on September 25, 2018. Descent - March 13, 2019.
 
On April 22, 2020, the vessel arrived in Murmansk. During the voyage from Turkey around Europe, the vessel demonstrated excellent seaworthiness, especially in stormy conditions. Where she was hit by serious storms three times. In front of the Kola Bay, the wind reached 30 m/s.
 
On May 3, 2020 Zenit embarked on its first working voyage from the home port of Murmansk.
 
"Zenith" of project ST184 became the first vessel in the world, which was specially built for fishing and deep processing of crab with boiling and freezing with brine.
 
Customer - North-West Fisheries Consortium.
 
The design documentation of the vessel under construction was developed by Skipsteknisk and the Marine Engineering Bureau.
 
The main purpose of the vessel:
 
• fishing for Kamchatka crab and Opilio crab with cone, trapezoidal and rectangular traps at depths from 20 to 400 m;
• processing of the caught crab into finished cooked-frozen products;
• storage of manufactured products in the freezing cargo hold;
• delivery of frozen products to the shore or at sea by means of cargo arrows by the "on the phone" method to receiving and transport refrigerated vessels at sea waves up to 5 points.
 

LEAD large aft freezing processor trawler of the KMT01 project "Barents Sea".
 
On September 8, 2020, an acceptance certificate was signed for the head large aft freezing trawler-processor of the KMT01 project "Barents Sea".
 
Builder - Vyborg shipyard (general director Alexander Solovyov).
 
Customer - Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet.
 
In total, the Vyborg Shipyard has ordered four trawlers of the KMT01 project.
 
The main purpose of the vessel: trawling of bottom fish species with the processing of the catch directly on board the vessel and the production of frozen products.
 

HEAD Arctic cargo-passenger vessel for 146 passengers of PV22 project "Admiral Nevelskoy".
 
On December 22, 2020, the Nevsky Shipbuilding and Ship repairing yard (General Director Evgeny Kuznetsov) handed over the lead cargo-passenger vessel of the PV22 project "Admiral Nevelskoy" with the Arctic category ARC4 for communication between Sakhalin and the Kuriles.
 
The customer is Sakhalinleasingflot.
 
The vessel is designed to carry 146 passengers in cabins, general cargo, containers (including refrigerator) and vehicles between Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands and is equipped with a cargo crane with the ability to perform cargo operations on an unequipped shore.
 
The new concept of the PV22 project has improved ice breaking capability, since it was made on the basis of the Arctic rescuer of the MPSV07 project, improved maneuverability compared to existing vessels due to the thruster and 2 propellers. The capicity of the hold is 895 cubic meters (compared to 208-215 cubic meters. m. on existing ships). The vessel has the ability to transport 24 containers, including 8 refrigerated and 6 passenger cars on deck. The motion reservation is provided by a two-shaft twin-engine installation. There are cabins for people with disabilities.
 

Multipurpose small-draught rescue tugboat of MPSV12 project with Arctic ice class Arc 5 "Beysug".
 
On December 26, 2020, the Nevsky Shipyard (General Director Evgeny Kuznetsov) put into operation the third in a series of multipurpose l small-draught rescue tugboat for Arctic navigation of the project MPSV12 "Beysug".
 
FSD "State Customer Management of Maritime Transport Development Programs" of the Federal Agency of Maritime and River Transport of the Russian Federation is a Customer. There are 4 vessels in the series.
 
MPSV12 multifunctional salvage tugboat (MSV) is a small-draught (working diapason is of 3.2-4.5 m) vessel with Arctic ice Arc 5 class, with inclined stem, with double-tier long forecastle, with ER located in middle, with diesel power system, with 2 controllable-pitch propellers, with 2 bow thrusters and single aft one.
 
Vessel has unique characteristics for her dimensions and Arctic ARC5 ice class, namely: deadweight is 1935 / 440 tons while draught is 4.50 / 3.20 m.
 

SEVENTEEN largest in terms of displacement dry-cargo "super-full" mixed river-sea navigation vessels "Volgo-Don Max" of the RSD59 project class.
 
The lead ship of the RSD59 series, Pola Macariya, was named one of the 2018 Significant Ships of 2018 of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA).
 
Shipping companies "Paula Rise", "Petrotrans", "Astrol", "Alpha" are lessees.
 
A total of three shipyards (Krasnoye Sormovo, Nevsky, Okskaya shipyards) have built 31 vessels of the RSD59 project (twenty-eight vessels under construction, 11 - in option).
 
Built in 2018-2020, more than thirty "super-full" multipurpose dry-cargo vessels "Volgo-Don max" of the RSD59 project class have no analogues in the world and are significantly better in terms of their technical and economic parameters than all vessels available on the domestic market.
 
Advantages of the RSD59 project in comparison with the best of the previously constructed dry cargo vessels of the Volga-Don Max class of the RSD49 project (by the example of m/v "Pola Fiva" with increased marine function):
 
• deadweight at draught of 3.60 m is 5320 t (RSD49 has 4507 t), increase is 813 t;
• deadweight at a draught of 4.20 m 6944 tons (RSD49 project has 6021 t), increased by 923 t;
• deadweight at the maximum draught of 4.706 m is 8144 t (RSD49 has 7143 t at maximum draught of 4.70 m), increase is 1000 t;
• removable type hatch covers are installed. Opening and closing of each section is operated with the help of a special frame crane, which is located in the area of the front bulkhead of the residential superstructure;
• movement and controllability are provided by two rudder propeller units (better maneuverability in the narrow waters, more cargo space due to the reduction of size of engine room).
 

TWO largest in terms of displacement dry cargo hold barges "Belmax" class for operation on the Belaya river, project RDB20.
 
While designing the hull of RDB20 prj. with overall dimensions of 118 x 22.6 x 3.0 m, computational methods were widely used, which made it possible to "compensate" additional double bottom and double sides; so the carrying capacity is up to 6000 t with a draught 2.85 m. This is definitely a record for inland navigation vessels.
 
A series of 2 dry cargo vessels prj. RDB20 with operational draughts from 1.20 to 2.85 m (as well as eight previously built oil-loading barge vessels of the ROB20 project) is being built by Oka Shipyard by leasing scheme for the Belmaks Shipping Company (St. Petersburg).
 
The operation of the vessel is operated by the pushing method with coupling locks of the R-100 and O-200 types. The same Urals / Volgars are supposed to be pushers (at the first stage).
 

LEAD mixed river-sea chemical tanker, project RST22TP "Marlin" with deadweight of 7033 tons.
 
The vessel was put into operation in August 2020.
 
Builder - "Volzhsky shipbuilding and ship repair yard" in the city of Volzhsky (part of the "Vega" group of companies), General Director Elena Mayer.
 
It is a self-propelled tanker with 6 cargo tanks, designed for the transportation of chemically hazardous bulk cargo, crude oil and oil products, including gasoline, with no flash point limitation, with the provision of cargo transportation with maintaining a temperature of 50°C.
 
It can carry 6 types of cargo at the same time. In total, there are 53 chemically hazardous bulk cargoes permitted for transportation, in addition to conventional oil bulk cargoes.
 

UNIQUE bunkering tanker - ecological vessel for Baikal project RT37 "Georgy Moskalev".
 
On May 28, 2020 the Baikal bunkering tanker - ecological vessel "Georgy Moskalev" of project RT37 was put into operation.
 
This "tanker-factory", which not only collects waste, but also processes it, was built by the East Siberian river shipping company by order of the Federal State Institution "Rechvodput" of Rosmorrechflot for FBU "Administration of the Baikal-Angarsk Basin of Inland Waterways". It was laid down on April 5, 2018. Launched on June 17, 2019.
 
The project was developed on the basis of the already built bunkering vessels of the RT18 project and the environmental vessels of the RT29 project, in fact, combining the capabilities of these projects and taking into account the fact that the "sacred sea" Baikal requires the highest among river classes - class "M" (all prototypes had a class "O") while providing a relatively small draft of 1.80 m.
 

THE FINAL IN SERIES third dry-cargo hold barge of mixed river-sea navigation "Volgo-Don Max" class of project RDB12.
 
On July 21, 2020, the Samara shipyard "Nefteflot" (director Sergey Malovichko) put into operation the third dry-cargo barge of mixed river-sea navigation project RDB12 with a deadweight of 4885 tons "Samarskaya - 3".
 
In total, JSC "GTLK" has ordered 3 barges of the RDB12 project. The lessee is the Petrotanker shipping company.
 
The RDB12 project is an unmanned non-self-propelled hold vessel "Volgo-Don Max" of the mixed river-sea navigation class with four cargo holds with double bottom and double sides, with watertight hatch covers. At the aft end, horizontal hitch beams are installed for an automatic hitch lock.
 

Cruise passenger vessel of mixed river-sea navigation project PV25 "Alexander Pushkin", class M-PR 3.0.
 
On July 9, 2020, a passenger vessel of mixed river-sea navigation of the PV25 project "Alexander Pushkin" with a passenger capacity of 186 people (initial project Q-040) left St. Petersburg for its first cruise to the Solovetsky Islands after the modernization and upgrade of the class.
 
The vessel is designed for transportation of passengers on cruise lines on the inland waterways of the European part of Russia, as well as in the areas of: White Sea - Onega Bay south of a line, sequentially connecting the village of Kem, the northern tip of the Solovetsky Islands, the island Zhizhginsky (May - October).
 
The customer is the Vodokhod cruise company.
 
The plant, to perform works on modernization - "The memory of the Paris Commune".
 
The modernization was made with the aim of increasing the class of the vessel for the ability to cruise to sea areas in accordance with the assigned class.
 
In the navigation of 2021, the PV25 project cruise passenger vessel Alexander Pushkin will operate on the river-sea lines Moscow - Solovetsky Islands, St. Petersburg - Solovetsky Islands, Nizhny Novgorod - Solovetsky Islands, as well as on other river lines.
 

Training sailing-motor yacht of project PV33 "Slavyanka".
 
The two-masted ketch yacht "Slavyanka" was reequipped according to the project of the Marine Engineering Bureau PV33 into a class "0" sports sailing vessel (unlimited sailing) in accordance with the "Rules for the design, construction, repair and operation of sports sailing vessels" of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping for "schools under sail" of the Maritime State University named after Admiral G.I. Nevelsky.
 

THREE modernized dry-cargo vessels of mixed river-sea navigation project RSD04L with deadweight of 5457 tons.
 
In 2020, the dimensional modernization of three dry-cargo vessels "Dremora 1", "Dremora 2", "Dremora 3" of project 003RSD04/ALB03 of the "Modulus" type was completed.
 
The modernization was made at the Okean shipyard and the Kherson shipyard.
 
Customer is shipping company "Albros" (general director Raim Alekperov).
 
The main task of lengthening by 24.05m of prj. RSD04L is to increase the deadweight at small draughts (3.8-4.5 m), which are typical for the ports of the Azov Sea and the Caspian Sea. The weight of the new hull block with the hatch covers is 304 t.
 
Deadweight at draught of 4.50 m increased to 4772 t from 3442 t for 1330 t; for draught of 4.20 m deadweight increased up to 4289 t from 3054 t for 1235 tons. The deadweight for SWL draught of 4.92 m increased up to 5457 t (1512 t. increase).
 
Container capacity increased up to 191 TEU (151 in holds and 40 on hatch covers).
 

ONE modernized dry-cargo platform barge of limited navigation area of DCB26 project with deadweight of 1564 tons.
 
In 2020, the dimensional modernization of the MP-2812 dry-cargo platform barge of the limited navigation area of project 16800 was completed.
 
The modernization was made at the Amur Shipping Company. Customer - Amur Shipping Company.
 
The main task of the modernization is to improve the class of the vessel. After modernization and shortening of the barge's hull by 24 m, the vessel received the RMRS K R2 class.
 
Deadweight at draft 1.863 m 1.564 tons.
 
Among the projects under construction by the Bureau are country's Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and China:
 
• 2 railway gas ferries for the Baltic Sea for the Ust-Luga - Baltiysk line of CNF19M project;
• 2 rail-car-passenger ferries for the Caspian Sea of CNF18C project;
• 2 road-rail passenger ferries with ice category Arc5 for the Vanino-Kholmsk ferry line of CNF11CPD project;
• 1 cargo-passenger vessel with high ice class with passenger capacity of 146 people for transportation between the Kuril Islands and between the Sakhalin Island of PV22 project;
• a cargo-passenger vessel with a passenger capacity of 36 people and a deadweight of about 1350 tons to ensure the communication of the Commander Islands and Severo-Kurilsk with the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky project PV24;
• 3 RST12C project chemical product tankers for the Caspian Sea;
• cruise passenger vessel of mixed river-sea navigation with a capacity of 310 passengers, project PV300VD;
• 1 multipurpose rescue tug MPSV12 project Arc ice class 5;
• 4 MW Arc 5 class Arc 5 multipurpose rescue vessel of the "Spasatel Karev" type, MPSV07 project;
• multifunctional rescue icebreaker vessel with a capacity of 7 MW, class Icebreaker6, project MPSV06;
• large freezer trawlers of projects KMT01, KMT02, ST-192;
• crab-fishing processors of projects KSP01, KSP02;
• 2 pilot vessels of BLV04 project;
• 2 ice-class pilot vessels for work in the water area of the ports of the Northern Sea Route, project BLV03;
• Museum-vessel of project HS01 "Surakhany";
• 6 small support vessels - WSB01 project work vessels for the Caspian Sea;
• as well as many other vessels, including modern sea and mixed river-sea navigation dry cargo and oil tankers such as "Pola Makariya" (project RSD59), "Alexander Shemagin" (project RST25), "Neva-Leader" (project RSD49), "Marlin"(project RST22TP),"Gloucester"(project RST26),"Ediny"(project RSD60),"Azov five thousandth"(project RSD18),"Chelsea", bauxite barges projects DCB24, project RSD26, project RSD28.
 
And a number of other innovative projects.
 
In addition to new vessels, projects for modernization, re-equipment, conversion and re-classification are also being made and are being implemented.
 
The multipurpose offshore vessel "MPV Everest" with the Arctic ice class Arc5 has received a Polar ship certificate. To obtain the Certificate of a Polar Navigation Vessel, the Marine Engineering Bureau has successfully developed the following documents:
 
• Analysis of the vessel's compliance with the requirements of the "Polar Code", including the List of necessary actions;
• Manual for operation in polar waters.
 
On November 12, 2020, in Odessa, in the large hall of the Odessa City Council, an ceremony was held for the participants of the operation of lifting, towing and ashore the bunkering tanker Delphi. The honorary badge of the Odessa city head "Gratitude" was awarded to the employees of the Marine Engineering Bureau, who provided the calculated support for this extremely complex operation:
 
• G.V. Egorov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, General Director;
• A.G. Egorov, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Senior Researcher;
• N.V. Avtutov, Director for Prospective Development, Chief Designer;
• A.E. Nilva, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Senior Researcher;
• V.A. Nilva, Research Fellow.
 
In 2020, the Bureau continued its active scientific activity - the results of the company's work and new developments were presented at various international conferences and forums around the world, including online events. Bureau staff have published over 40 publications.
 
A special feature of 2020 was the widespread use of online platforms for organizing various events, including webinars.
 
The Marine Engineering Bureau together with PortNews in 2020 held FOURTEEN webinars on various topical aspects of shipping, shipbuilding and design, essentially setting a NEW FORMAT of communication for specialists and students.
 
You can review the webinars on the PortNews website. Analytical information - in the news on our website.
 
From 23 to 25 December an on-line conference "Philosophy of ship design" was held, organized by PortNews and the Marine Engineering Bureau, dedicated to scientific and practical problems of ship design. More than 160 industry specialists took part in the conference. You can review the conference on the PortNews website: reports on December 23, reports on December 24, reports on December 25.