Keels laid for Russian Fishery Company's future freezer trawlers

Russia's Admiralty Shipyards, a division of state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), has laid the keels of two new trawlers ordered by the Russian Fishery Company.

Kapitan Ipatov and Aleksandr Buzakov belong to the 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.

Upon completion, the vessels will be used for pelagic trawling of Alaska pollock and herring in the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, and adjacent Far East waters.

As with earlier sisters Mekhanik Sizov and Kapitan Yunak (pictured), the vessels will each have 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 capacity for 5,620 metres.

The onboard factory will have a daily freezing capacity of 400 tonnes and will be equipped for processing of fillet, minced surimi, and fishmeal.