With a few months to go before completion and delivery, the first new trawler in many years to be built in Kaliningrad for a local operator has been launched.
The customer is Marfish Group, and the 27-metre Vseslav has been built at the Svetlovsky Ship Repair Plant and designed by local engineering company Adomat.
“I congratulate you on the new fishing vessel, which bears the historic name Vseslav. This is the first vessel built in Kaliningrad, with a Kaliningrad registration, for fishing in the Baltic. This has not happened for a very long time,” commented deputy head of the Federal Fisheries Agency Petr Savchuk at the launch ceremony, which was followed by a formal keel-laying for a second trawler, to be built for St Petersburg company Petrotral 2.
“The renewal of the Baltic fishing fleet is in progress. It is especially encouraging that, for the first time in the post-Soviet period, the region is implementing a full cycle of building vessels for local fishermen,” Petr Savchuk said.
The 27 metre Vseslav has an 8.60 metre beam and a 735hp main engine, and is expected to catch around 1000 tonnes of pelagic species per month, with catches held in its 200 cubic metre fishroom.
According to the yard, while these project 174610 vessels are intended for the Baltic, these could also be suitable for Black Sea and Sea of Azov fisheries. Construction is subsidised by the Russian state, which will cover approximately Rub90 million of the Rub270 million building costs.
Petr Savchuk commented that the Kaliningrad Region’s fisheries complex is the most rapidly developing in Russia.
“This is a good example for other regions of our country,” he said.
