OREANDA-NEWS. August 26, 2010. Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard (Nizhny Novgorod, the MNP Group) has delivered a tanker to the customer - Moorpark Ltd. (Cyprus), the enterprise press release said. The tanker, named the Thetys is the fourth ship, the last in a series of tankers built for the customer. The vessel was launched in late June this year, then she successfully passed sea trials. The first in a series, Titan tanker was delivered in October 2009, the Enceladus and Yapetus were handed over in June and July 2010.

The contract for three tankers of project 19614 was signed in April 2008. The option for the fourth vessel was confirmed in the summer of that year. The tanker is intended for transportation of crude oil and petroleum products and chemical goods in accordance with the class: KM * Ice1 R2-RSN AUT3 VCS Oil tanker / Chemical tanker type 2 (vegetable oil) (ESP), and belongs to the class of river-sea going ship.
 
"This is the contract’s fourth and the last tanker of our own project in a series of oil tankers for the company Moorpark Ltd. Besides, this one is the seventeenth tanker of 19,614 project, built at our enterprise. These tankers are the largest river-going vessels. However, the serial tankers built for Moorpark Ltd. differs from previous series because they were constructed according to additional requirements of the customer to expand the range of transported goods and improved functionality of the vessels. Technical project was substantially modified and all the requirements were implemented during construction", says General Director of MNP Vadim Malov.
 
Ship dimensions: LOA - 141 meters, breadth - 16,9 m, depth - 6.1 meters, draft - 3,73 / 3,60 m, ship-load - 5530/5030, the volume of cargo tanks - 6720 cu. m, maximum speed - not less than 10 knots, the crew - 14/16, cruising range - 15/10 days. Navigation area - inland waterways and sea non-arctic areas in accordance with the ship class. The cargo ship with the cruising range of 12 days is equipped with double hull and double bottom in order to prevent accident oil spills.

The Shipyard Krasnoye Sormovo Plant is one of the oldest Russian shipbuilding companies, founded back in 1849. All vessels built at the Krasnoye Sormovo meet the requirements of MARPOL conventions, having the state-of-the-art equipment.

MNP Group, Sea, Oil & Gas Projects, is the Company Manager of shipbuilding projects. The Group is comprised of Plant Krasnoye (Red) Sormovo (Nizhny Novgorod), Sormovskoe (Sormovo) Engineering (Nizhny Novgorod) and the Volga-Caspian Design Bureau (Nizhny Novgorod).