Russian Civil Shipbuilding Sector

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The first Russian Aframax type tanker Vladimir Monomakh was launched from the slipway of the Zvezda shipbuilding complex

There is no point in getting some of the worlds best ship builders to design and build new large shipyards for you and then not bother to learn how to make ships the way they make them.

A bit like wanting more powerful rocket motors and buying them from a cold war rival because they make better rockets than you do, and even though they handed over the full designs and actual samples of the rocket engines to you it will take 10 years for you to develop something that is comparable... but it is them that are stupid right?

Sadly things often only get attention when there is a problem... and any problem is taken as the tip of much bigger much more fundamental problems for which all management should be fired... but of course things get sorted out and once things are functioning normal everyone settles down.

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As reported on July 14, 2020 Shipbuilding Complex Zvezda LLC (SSK Zvezda, Bolshoy Kamen, Primorsky Krai), the company carried out an operation to install a waterproof shutter (batoport) on the construction dry dock being built. A floating structure 114 meters long and 12 meters high will separate the dock chamber, the bottom of which is located below the water level, from the water area.

The dry dock is one of the world's largest hydraulic structures with dimensions of 485х114х14 meters and a key element of the second stage of construction of the Zvezda shipyard. A dry dock allows you to build most types of existing and promising ships with virtually no limit to the tonnage and launch weight of the hulls. A unique Goliath-type crane with a lifting capacity of 1200 tons was installed at the dock, and pumping equipment that has no analogues in Russia was installed. The commissioning of the dock is scheduled for the current year.

Bathoport of dry construction dock SSK Zvezda installed

As reported on July 14, 2020 by OOO Shipbuilding Complex Zvezda (SSK Zvezda, Bolshoy Kamen, Primorsky Territory), the enterprise carried out an operation to install a watertight gate (bathoport) at the construction dry dock under construction. The floating structure, 114 meters long and 12 meters high, will separate the dock chamber, the bottom of which is located below the water level, from the water area.


Construction dry dock of the Zvezda shipyard with an installed watertight seal (bathoport). Bolshoi Kamen (Primorsky Territory), July 2020 (c) SSK "Zvezda"

 The hull of the bathoport, made of high-strength shipbuilding steel, has a continuous waterproof skin and is divided by decks and bulkheads into air, ballast and open compartments. The bath port includes ballast systems, drainage, ventilation systems, dry dock filling valves, as well as a local fire extinguishing system and fire alarm. The batoport is controlled from the central console and local posts. Another feature is the presence of a carriageway on the upper deck of the bathoport.

 Before installing the hydraulic seal, the shipyard specialists flooded the dry dock. Also, work was performed to dismantle the enclosing bulkhead - dry dock dam, as well as dredging in the water area adjacent to the dock gate.

 The dry dock is one of the world's largest hydraulic structures with dimensions of 485х114х14 meters and a key element of the second stage of construction of the Zvezda shipyard. A dry dock allows you to build most types of existing and promising ships with virtually no limit to the tonnage and launch weight of the hulls. A unique Goliath-type crane with a lifting capacity of 1200 tons was installed at the dock, and pumping equipment that has no analogues in Russia was installed. The commissioning of the dock is scheduled for the current year.

 The construction of the most powerful icebreaker in the world "Russia" of the "Leader" project will be carried out in the dry dock of the SSK "Zvezda". At present, the first parts for the future nuclear-powered ship are being cut in the hull production unit.

 The vessel will become the most powerful ship in the history of world shipbuilding. This is a technically complex project that has no analogues in the world. Its key task is to provide year-round navigation of the commercial fleet along the Northern Sea Route. The Leader project will become the backbone of the new generation of Russian icebreaker fleet. The length of the new nuclear-powered ship will be 210 meters, width - 47 meters, draft - 13 meters. The icebreaker Rossiya will be equipped with two RITM-400 nuclear reactors, four turbines and four propeller motors. The total capacity of the icebreaker's power plants will be 120 MW, which will allow the vessel to overcome ice more than 4 meters thick at a speed of 2 knots. With an ice thickness of 2 meters, the icebreaker's speed will be up to 12 knots.

 The Zvezda shipbuilding complex is being created by the Consortium led by Rosneft on behalf of the President of Russia V.V. Putin. To date, the shipyard's portfolio of orders includes over 40 vessels, including options - 59 vessels. The pilot loading of the complex is provided by Rosneft, which has placed an order for 28 vessels at the shipyard. The Zvezda product line will include vessels with a displacement of up to 350 thousand tons, elements of offshore platforms, ice-class vessels, commercial vessels for transporting goods, special ships and other types of marine equipment of any complexity, characteristics and purposes, including equipment that previously in Russia it was not produced due to the lack of the necessary launching and hydraulic structures.









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Moscow, 7 September 2020. PAO NOVATEK announced that its joint venture Arctic LNG 2 ('Arctic LNG 2' and/or the 'Project') entered into long-term charter agreements on 14 Arc7 ice-class LNG tankers with SMART LNG (a joint venture between NOVATEK and PAO Sovcomflot), with the construction of the LNG tankers to be built at the Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex. The signing of the charter agreements allowed SMART LNG to conclude the corresponding contracts with the VEB.RF Group and Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex LLC for the construction and lease financing of these vessels.

In October 2019, the contracts for chartering, financing and construction of a pilot ice-class LNG tanker to be built at the Zvezda shipyard were signed. Earlier, the participants of Arctic LNG 2 (NOVATEK, TOTAL, CNPC, CNOOC, and the consortium of Mitsui and JOGMEC) in accordance with the Projects' Sea Transportation Strategy, approved the construction of 15 Arc7 ice-class LNG tankers at Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex.

The construction of 15 state-of-the-art ice-class gas tankers ensures the core formation of the Arctic fleet for the Project that will allow the year round transport of LNG along the Northern Sea Route to the Asian Pacific region, and provide an important stimulus to develop the Russian shipbuilding industry.

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Some people say that zviezda shipyard is not built for military production.

Arrow wrote:https://mobile.twitter.com/artjomh/status/1303306730177265664

Some people say that zviezda shipyard is not built for military production.

This is correct that the shipyard was primarily financed by Rosneft for construction of Oil and Gas tankers. However that does not mean that the Russian MOD can't place an order there in future and nobody in Zvezda management would be foolish enough to refuse such an order. Having said that, I don't think MOD is really thinking about aircraft carriers at the moment, I would be surprised if any aircraft carrier order is placed before 2030 at the earliest.

The first new ferry for Sakhalin was sent from Komsomolsk-on-Amur for completion to Vladivostok

On September 26, 2020, towing from Amur Shipbuilding Plant PJSC (ASZ; part of United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC - USC) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur to the outfitting base in Vladivostok of the head cargo-passenger automobile-railway ferry Alexander Deev ( serial number 300) of the CNF11CPD / 00300 project, being built for the Vanino - Kholmsk ferry line (Sakhalin island). The transfer of the ferry "Alexander Deev" to the customer represented by PJSC "State Transport Leasing Company" (STLC) is now scheduled for 2021.





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https://www.themeditelegraph.com/en/shipping/shipyard-and-offshore/2020/05/07/news/russia-tops-as-no-3-world-s-shipbuilder-nation-1.38815774

Does Russia have one of the most extensive shipbuilding industries in the world?

Ural receiving her heart (or part of it)

Monomakh is now in service

Because Russia doesn´t build anything.