Recently, Russia Russian Trading House RIF Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Yongxin Shipping Co., Ltd (Zhejiang Yongxin Shipping) cooperated to hold a steel cutting ceremony for 2+4+4 5,300DWT general cargo vessels, marking the beginning of the formation of a new fleet of this Russian shipowner.
According to the introduction, the 5,300DWT general cargo vessels are designed to meet the latest maritime efficiency and environmental standards and are equipped with advanced navigation and safety systems. This series of general cargo vessels will be equipped with IMO3 emission-compliant gensets supplied by Cummins and certified by Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS). After delivery, general cargo vessels will play a key role in strengthening the logistics network of the Russian Trading House RIF along its main trade routes.
It is worth noting that the 2+4+4 5,300DWT general cargo vessels of Russia’s Russian Trading House RIF is the first new ship order for Zhejiang Yongxin Shipping, which is an important milestone for this shipyard.
Zhejiang Yongxin Shipping Co., Ltd., was established on December 06,2022. Its legal representative is Yan Deli, with a 50million RMB registered capital, located in the coastal industrial city of Sanmen County, the east coast of Zhejiang Province, backed by Ningbo, a water transportation hub of the east coast of China and a natural haven, with wide and depth water area, and convenient of land transportation.
The company divides production and living areas, 482 mu(about 320 000m2) of production area and 120 mu(about 80 000m2) of living area, and 940 meters of shoreline. Total investment of shipyard will be 650 million RMB, and plans to build one 100,000dwt class slipway, and three 50 000dwt class slipways and one outfitting wharf. At present, there are three slipways of 350m×36m with a 200 ton crane, one 100,000 dwt class slipway with a 350ton crane are ready. 13000m2 of CNC cutting workshop , 5000m2 of coating workshop , 5000m2 of electric pipe processing workshop , 5000m2 of warehouse, office, residential and other rooms will be completed this year. The completion shipyard will meet the requirement of annual production capacity of 300,000 tons.
Yongxin Shipping has a strong management team with high professional quality and comprehensive technical ability. The key members have more than 10 years of ship construction or ship operation experience, as chief engineers or captains from state-owned shipping companies transformed system to the shipping market in 1996, shipyard senior executives or workshop director or middle and senior professional title engineers have been work on ship building since 1998. Whole management team is about 70 people. Since 2013, we have started to build the oil tankers, specially painted or stainless steel inner shell, one pump one cargo hold or cargo pumps driven by main engine loading/unloading type etc.
In the past two years, the company has build and delivered 22,900dwt oil chemical tankers (names ‘Yunding 19’), 3,440dwt stainless steel chemical tankers ( names ‘Hengzhou 007’), 16,000dwt bulk carrier (names ‘Gaoxin Tongda’), 6,500/7000dwt stainless steel chemical tankers and other typical ships, and two special ships of 4000M3 Marine engineering (channel dredging) ships etc.