Commissioning work has begun on a new trawler ordered by Russian Fishing Company.
Kapitan Yunak is the fifth of ten Project ST192 series of all-steel trawlers developed jointly by Russia's Marine Engineering Bureau and Norwegian naval architecture firm Skipsteknisk in compliance with Russian Maritime Register of Shipping IA Super and Ice3 rules.
Construction of the trawler was undertaken by state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation through its Admiralty Shipyards division.
The vessel will be used for pelagic trawling of Alaska pollock and herring in the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, and adjacent Far East waters. She has been designed to yield an annual catch totalling more than 60,000 tonnes, a productivity level more than twice that of the existing vessels of the Far East fishing fleet.
Kapitan Yunak has a length of 108.2 metres, a moulded beam of 21 metres, a draught of eight metres, a displacement of 13,500 tonnes, berthing spaces and an onboard hospital for 155 crewmembers, and a fish hold with a capacity for 5,620 metres.
The commissioning is scheduled to be completed at the end of July 2026. The vessel will commence fishing shortly afterwards.