Russia's Cherepovets Shipbuilding Plant (CSP) has floated out a new inland pusher tug ordered by local shipowner State Transport Leasing Company (STLC).
Vasily Vereshchagin is one of five Project TSK.395 tugs ordered by STLC from CSP. Its delivery and those of two other sisters are scheduled for later this year.
The Project TSK.395 pusher tugs were designed by local naval architecture company Rechflot State Central Design Bureau to comply with the Ice 30 hull strengthening notation of the Russian Classification Society.
This notation ensures that the tugs' hulls are durable enough to enable navigation even in fine broken surface ice of up to 30 centimetres in thickness.
Upon completion, the all-steel tug will have an LOA of 22.3 metres, a beam of 7.4 metres, a draught of only 1.5 metres, a depth of 2.84 metres, a displacement of 100 tonnes, and space for eight crewmembers.
Two 440kW diesel engines will deliver a service speed of just over nine knots and a maximum endurance of 108 hours, allowing the tug to sail on near-uninterrupted point-to-point voyages when pushing or towing barges even under mild winter conditions.