Yantar shipyard presents project of ferryboat for Sakhalin
On August 21, 2015, Baltic Shipbuilding Plant “Yantar” (United Shipbuilding Corporation, Kaliningrad) presented the Sakhalin Government with the project of a ferry for Vanino-Kholmsk service, the regional government’s press center says.
The project’s working name is СNF11-CPD; length - 131 m, width – over 22 m. One ferryboat can accommodate three times as much vehicles as any of the existing ones. Passenger accommodation - 100 places in cabins and 50 places in the common compartment.
“It is not the final design. We have come here to listen to the proposals of all the interested parties. Before we commence steel-cutting we are ready to introduce amendments”, said Dmitry Pryakhin, Director of Marketing and Sales Department of USC. .
The tender for construction of two ferryboats was announced in 2014. “However, price proposals were higher than the budget allocations and the tender was cancelled. Now the issue of co-financing from the federal and regional funds is under consideration,” said Gennady Kotlikov, Deputy Minister of Transport and Road Facilities of the Sakhalin Region.
It was Yantar shipyard that built ten ferryboats in 1973-1992 for Vanino-Kholmsk line. Three of them operate at the line today. Financing of new car and rail ferries is included into the federal programme Development of the Far East and the Transbaikalia.
