The vessel successfully completed mooring and sea trials a week earlier. NIBULON’s shipbuilders tested systems, installed furniture in the living accommodation, installed ventilation and air conditioning systems, adjusted equipment in the engine room and others.
Before being put into operation, the vessel’s gears and equipment were tested by the company’s shipbuilders. In fact, testing of the ship’s ramp and approval by the Register became the final stage of construction.
The Shipping Register of Ukraine issued the vessel an appropriate class: KE * Ice1 B-R4-RSN2,0 floating crane. The crane’s dimensions are as follows: length – 38.5 m, breadth – 12 m, depth at midship – 3.45 m, draught 1.45 m.
The non-self-propelled floating crane will be used together with a Terex Fuchs MHL 385 D transshipment grab crane purchased by NIBULON earlier.
As the problem with the Dnipro dredging is still unsolved, the crane enlarges batches of non-self-propelled vessels navigating along the Dnipro in order to complete the loading up to the shipload on the Dnipro area, below the Dniprodzerzhynsk sluice gate. The crane will unload or complete the loading in the outer and inner roads of Mykolayiv Sea Port.
On March 03, the non-self-propelled floating crane started operating on the berth of NIBULON’s main grain terminal in Mykolayiv.
At the same time the company’s shipbuilders are preparing to start a completely new order. At the beginning of March, NIBULON plans the keel-laying of the first six non-self-propelled vessels of the B2000 project.
The B2000 project vessels are intended for operation on the Southern Bug. Dimensions: length – 71.7 m; breadth overall – 17.2 m; depth – 3.3 m; draught loaded – 2.25 m; draught lightship – 1.8 m; displacement – 2,515 t; cargo hold capacity – 2,850 m³; number of holds– 1; navigation area – Ukrainian inland waterways.