ODESA, JUNE 1st, 2012, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE — Turkish shipyard Sefine delivers a railway ferry CNF10 designed in Odesa, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.

The press service of Marine Engineering Bureau reported today, 1 June.

According to the press service of the 29May, Turkish shipyard Sefine (Yalova) put into operation a railway ferry with 45 cars capacity, project CNF10 ULFAT.

The customer is Reserve Capital Corporation.

The vessel has been designed to work on the railroad ferry lines Port Kavkaz (Russia) — Poti (Georgia), port Kavkaz — port Samsun (Turkey). The vessel is designed for transportation of railway carriages and vehicles, as well as dangerous goods of various classes and oversized cargo.

Her overall length is 133.82 m, length between perpendiculars — 122.7 m, overall width — 22 m, depth — 8 m, deadweight about 5 thousand 238 tons of cargo with at draught 5 meters waterline On sea trials the ship speed of 11.6 knots found when using 70% of the capacity of the two DGs and good handling. Ship shaft, the speed of 12 knots in service, has two thrusters in the nose. Endurance — 10 days. Crew — 15 people. The total number of seats — 16.

INFORMATION: OJSC Marine Engineering Bureau was registered on March, 23rd, 1995 in Odesa, Ukraine. It was founded by a group of scientists of the Shipbuilding Department, Odesa National Maritime University. OJSC Marine Engineering Bureau works out pre-contract classification projects, projects of “conversion”, upgrade and renewal of sea vessels for internal and mixed journeys. They also prepare projects for increasing carrying and container capacities of ships and other related work.