From today the fleet of the Russian Federation is enriched by the tug C.871 РИМ ― MОСКВА (Rome ― Moscow) built by the Vittoria Shipyard. The Venetian company specialized in the design and construction of military, paramilitary, work and commercial boats has, in fact, delivered to SevRao / RosRao for the Aspect Konversia Project, the tugboat intended for the dismantling of nuclear submarines abandoned in the Barents Sea.
The official handover of the 8 million euro unit, commissioned in 2016 by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) as part of the collaboration agreements between the Italian and Russian governments on the management of radioactive waste, took place in the plant in Adria with a ceremony attended by Luigi Duò, president of the Vittoria Shipyard, and the representatives of the two Russian companies that will manage the unit.
The tugboat, launched last September, will land in the town of Murmansk approximately in June and will be able to perform thrust towing functions in ports or in the open sea even in the presence of ice specifically for floating docks that are part of the same project built previously.
"The vehicle we have just delivered to the representatives of the Russian Federation - comments Luigi Duò, president of the Vittoria Shipyard - consolidates our position on the market of port and offshore tugs. Our company, which boasts a high degree of specialization in the construction of military and paramilitary, work and passenger transport boats, can now contribute to becoming a reference also for the national and international tugboat market, a highly competitive and continuously evolution. We are proud to have designed and built, in just two years, two azimuth units destined for important foreign institutions, proving to be able to meet every quality and safety standard required by the client, even the most stringent ones such as those imposed by 'russian flag ', challenging our engineering and design skills ".
The tug РИМ ― MОСКВА (Rome ― Moscow), together with the unit Cap de Fer awarded to the port authority of Skikda, in Algeria, it represents for the Adria shipyard, the second historical supply in the context of tugboats of the ASD type (azimuth propulsion). The unit is designed and built to operate down to -10 degrees and guarantee, in the winter period, during the stop on the quay, a heating capacity of the crew rooms even with temperatures of -34 degrees; it was built and monitored in accordance with the regulations of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RMRS); complies with the regulations for habitability and sanitary services on board ships flying the flag of the Russian Federation and has received the ICE2 class notation. The tugboat, about 32 meters long, also has a fixed-point pull capacity of 65 tons and a dynamic pull of 54 tons, and can reach a speed of 12,5 knots thanks to two fast diesel engines each coupled to two azimuth thrusters. with variable pitch propellers.
