Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg has formally laid the keels of two more ST-192 trawlers for the Russian Fishery Company (RRPK), the seventh and eighth vessels in the series of ten.
These 108-metre vessels are being built in pairs, and come under the Russian government’s investment quotas initiative. These trawlers are designed to each have a throughput capacity of 60,000 tonnes annually of herring and Alaska pollock, producing surimi, fillets, and a variety of canned and frozen products on board, with catches 100% utilised.
These vessels are replacing the elderly fleet of Soviet-era trawlers that is being phased out of operation.
The first four of these vessels built at the Admiralty yard are in operation while two more are approaching competion.
In line with the rest of the series of trawlers, these seventh and eight vessels are named after significant industry figures – this time leading RRPK fishing skipper Sergey Borisovich Ipatov and general director of Admiralty Shipyards Alexander Sergeevich Buzakov.
