Vyborg Shipyard launches lead freezing trawler of Project КМТ02, Nord-Pilgrim
On 3 September 2019, Vyborg Shipyard (a company of United Shipbuilding Corporation) launched the lead 80-meter long freezing trawler of Project КМТ02, Nord-Pilgrim, says press center of Marine Engineering Bureau, the ship designer.
The lead ship was ordered by Nord-Pilgrim.
The ship is primarily intended for trawling of bottom/deep sea species of fish (cod, haddock, sea perch, catfish) and shrimps, processing and freezing of the catch.
Characteristics: LOA – about 80.40 m; BOA – 15.40 m; depth to main deck – 6.15 m; depth to trawl deck – 9.10 m; draft max – 8.90 m; freezing hold capacity – about 2,050 cbm; fish flour hold capacity – about 260 cbm.
RS class notation KM Ice3 AUT1 (REF) Fishing Vessel.
The vessel is supposed to operate in the North Atlantic including Greenland, Canada, Iceland, Spitzbergen and the Barents Sea.
The lead ship of Project КМТ02, Nord-Pilgrim, was laid down on 16 January 2018, the second ship in the series, Yury Matochkin – on 1 November 2018.
Vyborg Shipyard PJSC (part of state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation from 2012) is one of the largest shipbuilding companies of the North-Western Region of Russia. From the date of its foundation in 1948 the Shipyard has built 210 different vessels, 9 offshore drilling rigs and 105 topside modules for fixed offshore platforms with total displacement of over 1,550,000 t.
