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Diesel Power & Propulsion

Propulsion Prospers in Russian Building Boom

01 Oct 2007

As NEVA 2007, the 9th International Shipping, Shipbuilding, Ports and Offshore Energy Exhibition kicked off in St Petersburg, Russia late last month, German propulsion systems specialists Schottel were well placed to talk of local successes on their stand at the show.

Six new OSVs to the IMT 955 design will be built at Russia's Yaroslavl Shipyard.

The company has had business relations in Russia for decades and is currently enjoying a surge of activity as foreign ship owners order vessels in the country in order to benefit from shorter delivery times. This is due to high production capacities resulting from former military shipyards now building commercial vessels. The formerly top secret Amur Shipyard in Komsomolsk is now active in the commercial vessel sector and is currently fitting an 800 kW Schottel SPJ 220 Pump-Jet and an STT 2 FP bow thruster to a seismic research vessel.

A number of other freighters, tankers, tugs and research vessels are being fitted with Schottel bow thrusters and complete main propulsion and manoeuvring systems. Schottel SRP 2020 Rudderpropellers rated 1,980 kW at 750 rpm are being fitted in ice going tugs for the Russian Port of Primorsk.

Gasprom subsidiary Podvodgasengineering was looking for high efficiency, low noise propulsion units for a new research catamaran and ordered two Schottel STP 200 Twin-Propellers, each rated 285 kW at 1,800 rpm, plus two SPJ 15 Pump-Jets rated at 55 kW each as a manoeuvring aids.

The Italian shipping company Petro Barbaro is having three shortsea tankers built at the Oka Shipyard for use in Russia. Their Schottel SRP 1010 FP Rudderpropellers with ice class RMRS LU1 have been optimised for operation in Russian waters and broken ice.

Smaller Russian shipyards are also in great demand. Norwegian customer KS North Sea Safety recently placed an order with the Yaroslavl Shipyard for six offshore supply vessels to be delivered between 2009 and 2011.

The successful IMT 955 design, which has already been built at Zamakona in Spain, is being modified with each vessel fitted with two STP 1010 Twin Propellers, each rated 900 kW at 1,200 rpm, a retractable SRP 550 ZSV Rudderpropeller (800 kW at 1,200 rpm) and an STT 2 FP bow thruster (350 kW at 1,200 rpm. All systems are diesel electric units built in accordance with DNV classification.

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