OREANDA-NEWS. November 16, 2011. Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard signed an acceptance certificate of “Mekhanik KHARITONOV” tanker of the project 19614 built for VF Tanker Company. The tanker is sent to the customer. The contract to build eight tankers was signed in June 2010. The tankers of this project are the river-sea class vessels. Technical features: length – 141 m, beam – 16.9 m, hull height – 6.1 m, draft – 3.73/3.60 m, volume of cargo tanks – 6720 cubic meters, speed – 10 knots, crew – 14/16 people, endurance – 15/10 days. Navigation area is inland waterways and sea nearctic areas. The tanker is designed for the transportation of diesel fuel, fuel oil, as well as oil products and crude oil. Ship class: КМ * Ice1 R2-RSN AUT3 VCS Oil tanker.

MNP Group incorporates the leading Russian shipyard - Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard (Nizhniy Novgorod) as well as Volgo-Caspian Design Bureau and Sormovskoye Mashinostroeniye (Nizhniy Novgorod).