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Acceptance certificate signed on delivery of lead processor-trawler Barentsevo More
Vyborg Shipyard PJSC (part of USC) and Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet JSC, which is a part of North West Fishing Consortium, have signed an acceptance certificate on the handover to the Customer of the lead processor- trawler of KMT01 project Barentsevo More.
After the successful sea trials which confirmed and verified the design characteristics of the trawler, the parties signed an acceptance certificate on the handover of the vessel to Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet JSC. Field tests, according to the terms of the shipbuilding contract, will be carried out after the transfer to the Customer directly in the fishing area.
This is the first large-capacity trawler built at a Russian shipyard over the past 30 years to the class of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping. In total, four vessels of KMT01 project will be built at Vyborg Shipyard on order of Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet JSC: two of the three more vessels have already been launched, preparations for launching the last one in the series are nearly completed. The vessels construction is carried out under Russia’s "quota for keel" program providing for placing orders for fishing vessels at domestic shipyards.
Barentsevo More was laid down at Vyborg Shipyard on May 31, 2017, and launched on December 5, 2018.
Reference: The series of 4 trawlers project KMT01 has been built turnkey at VSY since 2017. Measuring 86 m in length and 17 m in breadth, Ice 3 class with hull strengthening to Arc 4, the vessels of this project will be equipped with an advanced trawl system of the latest generation enabling to handle bottom fishing grounds, pelagic fish species and shrimps in various fishery basins.