Russia's State Transport Leasing Company (STLC) has taken delivery of a new inland pusher tug built by Cherepovets Shipbuilding Plant (CSP).
Vasily Vereshchagin is one of five Project TSK.395 tugs ordered by STLC from CSP.
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.
The all-steel tug has 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.
Examples of the Project TSK.395 tugs have also been acquired by Russia's Sheksna Shipping. This includes Yuri Popsuev, the first tug in the series.
