Engineers at the Vympel Design Bureau are completing the development of the first unified platform for the construction of "river-sea" vessels (based on the 19900M project chemical tanker). This was announced by Natalya Oshiker, Deputy Director of the Department of Sales and Contracting of Civil Shipbuilding at USC.
Basin tests of the platform will begin in the summer of 2025 at the Krylov State Research Center in St. Petersburg. According to Oshiker, the goal of the project was to reduce the cost and shorten the construction time of vessels.
For this, we consider it expedient to maximally unify similar vessels both in terms of layout solutions and in terms of the composition and characteristics of ship equipment.
The platform solution will allow for the simultaneous development of 3 types of vessels: a universal dry cargo ship, a container ship, and a tanker.
Characteristics of project 19900M:
- Length — 141 m
- Deadweight — almost 7900 t
- Equipment — 12 cargo tanks with a total capacity of up to 8870 m3
- Increased class of environmental safety and automation
- Improved maneuverability
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