Following the example of the Mississippi River as an important transport artery, NIBULON is reviving the Dnipro River as a transport artery in Ukraine. Thus, the company uses cheap, more efficient and environmentally friendly type of transport –transportation of grain and oilseeds by water.
At present the company’s logistics sector (in terms of water transport) includes 30 non-self-propelled vessels (the total deadweight is 138,580 tons), 9 modern tugs (POSS-115 and 121 projects), 3 purchased tugs, a unique floating crane, purchased Watermaster Classic IV dredger made in Finland, plus a Terex Fuchs MHL 385 D loading machine. Due to the constructed modern fleet, the company itself performs both river transportation and loading-unloading operations (transshipment in the roads).
Today NIBULON successfully performs water transportation. In the 2015 navigation period (as of December 21), the company has already transported almost 1.6 million tons of agricultural commodities by inland waterways, using its own cargo fleet.
Upon completion of the investment program, the annual cargo transportation along the Dnipro and the Southern Bug will be up to 3 million tons of grain crops, which represents the same figure as could be carried by about 46 thousand rail cars or about 100 thousand trucks per year.
At the same time St. Mykolai self-propelled floating crane continues to perform its main task in the outer roads of Mykolayiv Sea Port – to complete the loading of Panamax vessels, in particular, as part of commercial services rendering.
We would remind you that the floating crane started to operate on August 8, 2013. Since then, it has already transshipped almost 2.8 million tons.
In addition, despite the ice campaign, St.Mykolai will continue loading sea-going vessels, as its ice class allows the floating crane to perform operations in ice brush.
It should be noted that most NIBULON’s vessels were constructed at NIBULON shipbuilding and repair yard.
At present the shipyard has developed and successfully implements a production program with one hundred percent workload for the next five years. In 2016-2018, the company plans to construct at its own shipyard 13 non-self-propelled vessels (NBL-91, В2000, 90М projects), a self-propelled floating crane (similar to St. Mykolai floating crane), two multipurpose sea-going tugs of 3.5 and 5 thousand hp, plus three pusher tugs (modernized 121 project).
