A raft caravan (connected rafts) with coniferous round timber left the mouth of the Angara River. It is being towed towards the Arctic port of Dudinka by vessels of the Yenisei River Shipping Company. This was reported by the press service of the transport enterprise.
The giant raft is 750 m long and 55 m wide. Inside it are 20,117 cubic meters of timber for "Nornickel". The logs are needed by industrialists to remove gases from molten metal.
For this, the wood is lowered into the melt, which makes it "angry" - it boils and splashes, and the released gases hiss.
The caravan is towed by the vessels "Dmitry Korolsky" (project 428.2, built in Budapest) and "RT-701" (project 1741). When the raft passed between the supports of the Vysokogorsky Bridge (a road bridge over the Yenisei River), the push tugs "Angara-70" (project R-96A) and "Svetlogorsk" (project 809A) were used.
Characteristics of the project 809A tug:
- Length – 22 m
- Width – 5.5 m
- Side height – 1.3 m
- Displacement with supplies for 7 days – 58.3 t
- Diesel engine – Soviet 3D6 with 150 hp
The vessels must overcome difficult sections on the Yenisei where there are rapids. The raft caravan will move during daylight hours without anchoring. The journey to Dudinka is expected to take approximately 15 days.