Rosmorport’s Astrakhan branch expands dredging fleet

Rosmorport’s Astrakhan branch fleet has now been expanded with the dredging vessel Kronshlot.

According to the company, the dredger was earlier operated by Rosmorport’s North-West Basin Branch.

The Kronshlot, built by Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard (Nizhny Novgorod) in 2016, is the 10^th ship of the branch’s dredging fleet and the 36^th of its entire fleet.

Vessel particulars:

• LOA – 62,6 m;

• Beam – 14 m;

• Draft – 4,25 m;

• Hopper capacity – 1000 m3.

• Class notation: KM Ice1 R1 AUT2 Hopper Dredger.

The TSHD 1000 series vessels are able to dredge to a depth of 20 meters and operate at water temperatures -2 ° C to + 20 ° C.