Palmali cements links with MNP

Palmali Shipping of Istanbul further cemented their relations with the Russian shipbuilding group MNP when they signed a contract for the construction of ten 6,900 DWT chemical tankers at the Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard. Delivery of five of the tankers is scheduled in 2008 with the remaining five the following year.

Both parties first co-operated in 2003 with an agreement to construct seven dry cargo vessels at the Russian group’s Volgograd Shipyard, the last of which, the ZAFIRA ALIYEVA was delivered to Palmali in November 2006.

Currently the Krasnoye Somovo Shipyard is building a further five bulkers for the Istanbul company with the third vessel, SHIRVAN having been launched there in February of this year.

The overall length of the class of tanker ordered is 139.95 metres with 7,800 cubic metre cargo capacity and will be powered by two 1,200kW diesel engines giving a speed of 10.5 knots.

MNP Group incorporates the leading Russian shipyards: Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard (Nizhniy Novgorod), Nizhegorodskiy Teplokhod Shipyard, Volgograd Shipyard, Astrakhan III International Shipyard, Lotos Shipyard (Astrakhan), as well as Sormovskoye Mashinostroeniye (Nizhniy Novgorod), Volgograd special engineering plant, CDB Corall (Ukraine), Volgo-Caspian Design Bureau (Nizhniy Novgorod) and Friede & Goldman (USA).