North-Western Shipping Company delivers reactor vessel for Rostov NPP
North-Western Shipping Company OJSC has completed transportation of the reactor vessel from St. Petersburg to Volgodonsk for the third unit of Rostov NPP (branch of Rosenergoatom Concern), NWSC reports.
The transportation involved the tugboat Aleksandr Obukhov and RO-RO barge 2033. The operation was performed jointly with Infotech-Baltika CJSC. The project management was carried out by Volgo-Baltic Logistic.
The reactor vessel was manufactured by Izhorskiy Zavod. Its weight is 322 tonnes, length - 11 m, width – 5.6 m, height – 5.7 m.
North-Western Shipping Company is the largest carrier in Russia’s water transport system, specializing in shipping import / export general cargo, bulk and loose dry cargo, tugging of oversized cargo and vessels. The company’s fleet comprises about 101 cargo ships of total DWT 350,000 tonnes, including 85 mixed-sailing "river-sea” vessels, 6 barges, 7 tugs and 3 auxiliary ships. The NWS Company transports 6 million tonnes of different cargo a year. The Company is a member of VBTH, a shipping division of UCL Holding (majority owner of VBTH), consolidating also a number of Russian rail, stevedoring and logistics assets.
