Vision Fleet Shipping Company started implementation of a four-year program aimed at renovation of its fleet
Vision Fleet Shipping Company (Moscow) started implementation of a program aimed at renovation of its fleet. The program is to be implemented within 4 years (between shipping seasons within 2006-07). According to the company’s press release, total value of the program is still being clarified. Vision Fleet allocated $8 million for repair and modernization to be carried out within coming winter that exceeds similar expenses of the previous winter seasons by 30%.
According to Peter Razumov, Director General of Vision Fleet LLC, allocation of such sums for repair will raise competitive abilities of the company’s fleet and will enable the company to maintain good technical condition of the fleet.
Vision Fleet Company has planned to carry out 11 dock repairs for the coming winter (last winter the company held 4 dock repairs). Dock repair of vessels may result in replacement of 10-15% of the hull metal depending on the state of the hull structures (the state is determined through survey of defects to be held by the company’s specialists).
Vision Fleet Company pays much attention to overhaul of propelling engines, diesel-generators and auxiliary mechanisms of the vessels. In 2004 the company adopted the program on replacement of propelling engines. The program is under implementation now.
The Company’s vessels are repaired by large firms able to carry out large scope of high-quality repair, providing qualified personnel and having good reputation. The repairs held between navigation periods are carried out at Saint Petersburg shipyards: Kanonerskij zavod, Nevskij shipyard, Severnaya Verf and Nizhnij Novgorod shipyards: Gorodets Shipyard, Gorodets ship-repair mecjhanical plant, BORREMFLOT OJSC.
Good technical state of the vessels enable the company to use part of the fleet not only at inland water ways but at international lines as well. Vision Fleet Company operates 5 tankers of VOLGONEFT type (river-sea mixed type) capable of sailing in international waters.
