Shipbuilding News Review
February 13, 2025

On April 26, the Astrakhan Shipbuilding Production Association (part of USC) began an operation to tow the supporting base of the Project 4740 conductor block weighing about 2,400 tons. The transport pontoon "Rakhman Sharifov", accompanied by pusher tugs, moved towards the Yu. Korchagin in the Caspian Sea.

At the same time, the company is installing the upper structure of the conductor block.

The conductor block for the Yu. Korchagin field was laid at the ASPO production facilities in April 2016. The customer of the facility is Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft, the contractor is Caspian Hydrotechnical Company. The construction is scheduled to be completed by March 2018.

On April 24, the Kostroma Shipyard successfully tested and delivered to the customer the cargo-passenger steel water-jet boat KS-110-34

KS-110-34 is a river steel cargo-passenger boat with a water-jet propulsion unit, designed for the simultaneous transportation of piece cargo up to 5 tons and short-term rest for up to 12 people.

The shallow draft of the boat allows for loading cargo and boarding people from an unequipped shore, which makes it an indispensable means of transport in remote areas with limited navigation conditions.

Two cabins can comfortably accommodate 12 passengers.

Technical specifications:

Overall length - 17.10 m

Overall width - 3.22 m

Height in cabins - 1.7 m

Speed, not less than 22-29 km/h

Seaworthiness, wave height up to - 1.2 m

Displacement - 16 t

Carrying capacity - 5 t

Fuel capacity - 1000 l

Draft at full displacement - 0.50 m

The same day, the plant successfully conducted tests on the last ice and delivered the KS-701M water-jet boat to the customer.

Technical specifications:

Overall length, m

• with water-jet propulsion 8.8
• with POK 8.8
• with outboard motor 8.9

Overall width, m 2.5

Side height, m 1.2

Draft, m 0.35

Engine power, hp

• with jet propulsion up to 300
• with POK up to 300
• with outboard motor up to 450

Fuel tank capacity, l

• with waterjet propulsion up to 345
• with POK up to 345
• with outboard motor up to 530

Passenger capacity, persons 12

Displacement, t 3.8

Speed, km/h 60

Hull material AMg:

• bottom - 5 mm;
• sides - 4 mm;
• deck - 3 mm;
• cutting —3 mm.

On April 25, JSC Okskaya Sudoverf (part of UCL Holding) under a contract providing for the manufacture of hulls and parts of the PST-1 self-propelled pontoon for the Russian Ministry of Defense enterprise, OJSC 41 Central Plant of Railway Equipment,  made the first deliveries of products.

20 hulls and kits of parts for the PST-1 self-propelled pontoon were sent to the customer. The next 24 hulls are planned to be sent in the 2nd quarter of 2017. In total, under the contract concluded in 2016, Okskaya Shipyard will supply 50 sets of sheet metal parts and 70 hulls.

The self-propelled pontoon (pusher) "PST-1" of project 02920 is designed to ensure the possibility of erecting floating railway bridges from the property of NZhM-56 and MLZh-VF-VT, assembly and transportation afloat of construction and installation pontoons, transportation of ferries and organization of ferry crossings.