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August 29, 2008


STX begins construction of 50,000 DWT tankers

Port News reported that the steel cutting for the new ship of PRISCO was held at STX Shipyard in South Korea. The new vessel is the first of seven tankers of 51,000 tonnes deadweight each.

The main ship of this series is scheduled to put into operation on November, 2008. The other vessels are planed to be delivered by May 2009.

Mr Konstantin Globenko director of Fleet Technical Department of PRISCO said that the new tankers will be the first vessels in the world built with Winterization class D according to new rules for shipbuilding and operation under the conditions of negative degrees worked out by Lloyd’s Register.

He added that all ships of the new series will be double hulled and fitted with special systems and equipment providing tankers with safe operation and transportation of bulk liquid cargoes under the conditions of negative degrees.