Novoship enlarges its fleet

News was prepared under the information support of Online Daily Newspaper on Hellenic and international Shipping "Hellenic Shipping News".

30 Oct 2009

October 28, 2009, a new tanker NS Burgas, deadweight 156.6 thousand tons, enlarged OJSC Novoship’s fleet (Sovcomflot group of companies), company’s press-service informed. NS Burgas is the first of four tankers of ‘Suezmax’ class, ordered at Chinese shipyard Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries. NS Burgas became the largest of company’s 55 vessels.
There is information, classification society Lloyd’s Register that monitored vessel’s building, classified NS Burgas as the vessel of highest ecological safety. For Jiangsu Rongsheng NS Burgas was the first to get EP (Enviromental Protection) sign. Besides, it was the first time in the shipyard’s history that the vessel obtained Green Passport – the document certifying ecological safety of the materials used fro tanker building.
 NS Burgas has the following characteristics: length – 274.5 m, width – 48 m, hull height – 23.7 m, full draft – 17 m, maximum speed – 15 knots, the tanker is capable of simultaneous transhipment of 3 types of cargo.
The vessel was named in the honour of Bulgarian city Burgas – a starting point of Trans-Balkan pipeline planned to be constructed. A new range of ‘Suezmax’ class vessels of Novoship is in compliance with the requirements of Burgas-Alexandrupolis project. NS Burgas is currently charted by a large foreign oil company and will set off to be loaded in Hon-Kong for the first time on October 30.
The average age of tanker Sovcomflot’s fleet is 6.1 years to the date which is almost twice as less as average world’s figure. At the same time the current shipbuilding schedule of the group includes 18 vessels of overall deadweight 1.55 million tons.

Source: PortNews