Raising the PD-50 floating dock from the bottom of the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea will cost the budget approximately 840 million rubles. JSC "Lenmorniiproekt" has posted 18 announcements in the EIS "Purchases" system about the search for contractors to carry out the work.
The contracts provide for the implementation of a wide range of surveys and inspections, without which the lifting of the PD-50 is impossible.
The list of works includes geodetic, geological, environmental and archaeological studies, as well as underwater inspection of the dock hull and the search for possible explosive objects on it.
Separate purchases of "Lenmorniiproekt" are related to the preparation of fisheries characteristics of the area and assessment of the impact on aquatic biological resources. For example, the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences was chosen as the contractor for hydrobiological research.
As a reminder, the accident at PD-50 occurred on October 30, 2018, during the exit of the only Russian aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" from the dock after repairs. The preliminary cause of the emergency was power outage. Due to the fall of the crane, the hull and deck of the cruiser were damaged.
PD-50 with a lifting capacity of up to 80 thousand tons is one of the largest floating docks in the world, it was built in 1980 in Sweden.
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