First steel cutting ceremony for a second 114,000 dwt Aframax tanker was held this week at Zvezda Shipyard in Primorsky Region in the Russian Far East.
The ceremony marked the beginning of serial manufacturing of large-tonnage vessels for crude oil and products transportation at Zvezda.
These Aframax tankers will be the first vessels of such type built in the Russian Federation. According to Rosneft, the lead tanker launching is scheduled for 2020.
The lead vessel keel was laid in open-air heavy filling-out ways on September 11, 2018, as part of the visit to Zvezda shipyard of RF President Vladimir Putin.