Nevsky Shipyard launches self-propelled car and passenger ferry
The launching ceremony of the self-propelled car and passenger ferry «Arkady Filatov» for crossing the river Svir in urban-type settlement Voznesenye of Podporozhsky district in Leningrad region, project 2967/3132, took place in Nevsky Shipyard’s slipway on May 15th 2015, the shipyard’s press release says.
The construction of the vessel is being carried out in accordance with the Contract signed with Automobile road department of Leningrad region in last August. The project is developed by Engineering Centre of Shipbuilding, JSC.
General data: length overall, about, m 40.5
overall width, m 12.2
midships depth, m 3.3
full-load draft, m 1.7
above-water dimension of fixed parts, m 8.5
deadweight, t 100
passenger capacity, persons 100
crew, persons 3
transporting motor cars quantity: - triaxial dump truck KAMAZ type without cargo with weight of 10400 kg (model 43118), pcs. 8
or - medium car with design weight of 2000 kg, pcs. 16
Russian River Register class: O2,0 (ice 30)A
The representatives of the Customer, classification societies, contracting and design organizations, equipment and materials suppliers, the representatives of mass media participated in the ceremony.
For information: Nevsky Shipyard, LLC is located 40 km away from Saint-Petersburg in the town of Schliesselburg on the left bank of the river Neva. The Shipyard is one of the oldest enterprises of water transport in the northwest of Russia which started its shipbuilding activity since 1952. Nowadays the Shipyard builds sea and river vessels of various types and purposes and carries out all kinds of ship repair works. The slipway for vessels rising allows to launch and lift for repairs the vessels up to 140 meters long and dock weight up to 3000 tons.
