OREANDA-NEWS. August 10, 2010. The third tugboat, constructed at the Leningrad Shipyard Pella for Sovcomflot, has been delivered to the Customer. The vessel will be soon launched, the company press release said.

An earlier report said the Dobrynya was designed to operate in North-West region. The ship dimensions: LOA - 28.5 m, Breadth - 9,5 m, Depth - 4,8 m, Overall draught - about 4,5 m, Crew – 8, Bollard pull - 47 tons. The tug was built on class KM * Arc4 R2 Aut1 FF3 WS Tug.

Pella Shipyard was founded in 1950. In 1992 the state-owned enterprise was privatized, turned Pella Holding Company comprising of the head office and a number of its subsidiaries.

Sovcomflot Group, founded in 1995, is one of the largest Russian shipping companies. Sovcomflot’s fleet comprises of 146 ships of total deadweight of over 10 million tons. The company shipbuilding program includes 10 ships of total 800,000 DWT. The average Sovcomflot’s tanker age is some 7 years (world’s average - 12 years). The Group ranks first in the world in the segment of commodities carriers, the second - in Aframax vessels fleet. The company has the world’s largest Ice Class vessels fleet. It is also the top global operator of Arctic shuttle tankers and LNG carriers with Ice Class.