Krylov Center offers designing of passenger vessels for St. Petersburg (photo)
Krylov State Research Center (SRC) has addressed St. Petersburg Committee on Industrial Policy and Innovations with a proposal to design small-size passenger vessels for municipal water routes, IAA PortNews journalist cites Yevgeny Appolonov, deputy Director General of Krylov SRC.
“Upon elaboration of the transport system in conjunction St. Petersburg Government we are ready to design river trams,” Appolonov said. “A kind of a standardized vessel will be designed for transportation along the canals up to the Fontanka river, another vessel – for the Neva river, and the third one will be able to enter the Gulf of Finland”, he explained.
When speaking about the term, Appolonov said “it would require some 9 months from the work start.”
“Then we will hand over the work to the government to place the projects at interested shipyards,” he added.
Krylov State Research Center was set up in 1894 as Russia’s first model testing basin in the central part of St. Petersburg. It is a scientific research organization of the national shipbuilding sector focused on conceptual and workshop designs of naval ships, merchant vessels and offshore structures as well as on their operation and disposal.
