24.10.2010
NAVIBULGAR® KEEPS RENEWING ITS FLEET WITH FOUR NEW SHIPS
The new investment is totaling to 112 million US dollars, with which the contracts for 2010 reach 227 million US dollars.
In implementation of the announced investment program, the Management of NAVIBULGAR® signed contracts for building of four more bulk carriers with a deadweight of 30 700 tons each. The new investment is totaling to 112 million US dollars.
Vessels will be given traditional for Navibulgar names: Lyulin, Osogovo, Belasitsa and Rodopi. It is expected the first vessel – Lyulin, to be delivered in January 2011, and the last – Rodopi – in September 2011.
All vessels are sisterships to Vitosha and Strandja (purchased in August 2010), and will be built in the same shipyard - Shanhaiguan Shipbuilding Industry Co. Ltd. - China.
TECHNICAL PARTICULARS OF THE VESSELS:
LOA – 186 m
Breadth – 23,70 m
Draft – 10.40 m
Cruise range - 14 800 nautical miles
Speed – about 15 knots
Ice class 1C
A team of NAVIBULGAR® specialists is already in the shipyard and together with representatives of Lloyd’s Register supervises the building of the ships.
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