OREANDA-NEWS. The lead dry-cargo ship project RSD19 for Irinvestship Limited (Iran) was launched at Volgograd Shipyard, MNP Group. In August, 2005 Volgograd Shipyard signed contact with Irinvestship Limited for building a series of river-sea-going dry-cargo ships project RSD19. Four ships are scheduled to be built within two years upon signature of the contract.

According to the press service of MNP Group, the multi-purpose dry-cargo ship has the maximum for the Volga-Don route overall dimensions and is designed for transportation of general and bulk cargo, timber and large-size cargo, 8.5-9-ft international standard containers. Maximum length of the ship is 139.95 m, width – 16.70 m, depth – 6 m, draught (sea/river) is – 4.6/3.6 m, ballast draught is – 3.15 m, deadweight (sea/river) -6,750/4,343 mt, cargo capacity (sea/river) – 6,325/4,100 mt.

The ship is fitted with 4 cargo tanks of total capacity 10,800 cubic m, capacity of ballast tanks is 3,900 cubic m, sea endurance is 4,000 miles, loaded speed is 10.5 knots, the crew is 13/16 people. The design was worked out by Maritime Engineering Bureau (Odessa, Ukraine) for class KM&LU 2 1 IA1 of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping and meets all the requirements of international conventions.