Built for Russian Fishery Company to operate in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk, the ST-192 design Kapitan Yunak has been put through sea trials in the Baltic as it approaches completion at the Admiralty Shipyard in Saint Petersburg.
These factory vessels have accommodation for up to 155 crew on board, with a 45-day operational autonomy. Kapitan Yunak is the fifth in a planned series of ten trawlers built under the Russian government’s investent quotas initiative, replacing ageing Soviet-era tonnage with a smaller number of more efficient and versatile vessels.
The series was preceded by Vladimir Limanov, built at a Turkish shipyard, and has been followed by Kapitan Vdovichenko, Mekhanik Maslak, Mekhanik Sizov, Kapitan Martynov and now Kapitan Yunak, all built at the Admiralty Shipyard. The series of ten vessels is scheduled to be completed in 2027.
The 108.20-metre, 21-metre beam factory vessels in the RFC series have a 5620 cubic metre hold space and are designed to each catch and put 60,000 tonnes annually of Alaska pollock and herring through their waste-free processing decks.
The yard is currently in the final stages of outfitting the sixth in the series, Mekhanik Shcherbakov, with sea trials about to take place, while work continues on Kapitan Ipatov and Alexander Buzakov.
