ZNT Yard delivers SAR boat of Project 23040 to RF Ministry of Defense
On November 24, 2014, ZNT Yard and RF Ministry of Defense signed an acceptance/delivery certificate for multipurpose offshore Search and Rescue Boats of project 23040, the shipyard says.
In late March 2013, ZNT Yard signed a state contract for the construction of 16 SAR boats of 23040 design ordered by Russian MoD. The first four vessels were built and delivered to Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet based in Novorossiysk by the end of 2013. In 2014, ZNT delivered 6 vessels of the series in compliance with the contract.
The 23040-series boat will join the Search and Rescue Unit of the Black Sea Fleet.
The 2015 delivery schedule includes six boats for the Baltic Fleet (Kronshtadt).
JSC Nizhny Novgorod Motor Vessel Yard (ZNT Yard), based in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region, was founded in 1911. Today, the shipbuilding firm with its in-house design bureau specializes in the construction of supply and auxiliary fleet, harbor equipment and marine engines and provides a broad range of ranged services.
