OREANDA-NEWS. September 22, 2010. Onega Shipyard (Petrozavodsk, Russia’s Karelia) has launched the sixth 4,500dwt multi-purpose dry cargo ship of project DCV33, the Marine Engineering Bureau press release said. The ship was named Captain Zhikharev designed and built to the Germanischer Lloyd class: Hull: 100 A5 E2, G, DBC, SOLAS II-2, Reg.19, Multi Purpose Dry Cargo Ship, Equipped for Carriage of Containers; Machinery: MC E2 AUT.
 
The vessel belongs to a class of European coaster meeting commercial and port requirements adopted for traffic between the ports of the European Union, with a conventional length up to 85 meters, gross tonnage of 3,000 tons, one cargo hold and the maximum possible for such vessels dwt (about 4500 tons).
 
Unlike other coaster designed by MEB (Project 003RSD04, Caspian Express type) the DCV33 project vessel has unlimited navigation area and was not intended for operations on inland waterways.
 
Keel-laying of the lead ship of a series EMI PROUD was held in September 2007, commissioned in November 2008. Overall, there have been five ships of the project delivered to the customer.

Onega Shipyard was founded in 1944. The enterprise is situated on the shore of Lake Onega in Petrozavodsk. In 2002 the shipyard started a large-scale modernization of its facilities, upgrading equipment, staff training. Now the company has been able to fulfill ‘turnkey’ contracts for building ships. The shipyard annually delivers to the customer, three ready-to-sail ships. In 2011, Onega Shipyard expects to deliver four news vessels.

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