API Marine Signs a Contract for the Supply of Cargo Control and Automation System for a Series of Ten New-buildings
API Marine has signed a contract for delivery of complete cargo control and automation system for a series of ten new-buildings of project RST22 being built at Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard for Palmali Group. The project consists of ten vessels, five of which are scheduled for delivery in year 2008, and the other five in year 2009. Tankers of this project are designed to carry crude oil and petroleum products, providing carriage of three types of cargoes simultaneously. Vessels’ class is Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.
"This contract continues the long-term cooperation between API Marine and MNP Group", comments Managing Director of API Marine Sven Egelund Rasmussen, "as we are the current supplier of cargo control and automation systems for projects 19619, 19614 and 4450 of MNP Group."
MNP Group incorporates the leading Russian shipyards: Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard (Nizhniy Novgorod), Volgograd Shipyard, as well as Sormovskoye Mashinostroeniye (Nizhniy Novgorod), Volgograd special engineering plant, Volgo-Caspian Design Bureau (Nizhniy Novgorod) and Friede & Goldman (USA).
Palmali Group is one of the major transportation companies in Turkey and a growing competitor in the European part of Russia, in the Black Sea, Caspian Sea and in the Mediterranean with a corporate goal to further expand in the worldwide transportation market. The company’s vast experience lies within transportation of petroleum products, edible oil products as well as transportation of different kinds of dry cargo products with its tanker and dry cargo carrier fleet.
