River fleet

Manager of the River Fleet Operating Department — Nazarenko Alexandr

Tel. (04841) 67-182

RIVER FLEET

The river fleet of the PJSC “Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company” consists of:

- river barges of different types of cargo carrying capacity from 1000 to 2300 t;

- river pusher tugboats of total powerplant output from 1050 to 3000 hp;

- self-propelled dry cargo vessels of cargo carrying capacity up to 1814 t (total powerplant output amounts to 2100 hp and is also used for pushing the barge convoys).

All in all, the river fleet of our shipping company includes 75 self-propelled vessels and 245 nonself-propelled vessels.

The PJSC UDP operates the fleet of foreign joint venture companies as well, amounting to 125 units of nonself-propelled fleet.

The PJSC UDP river fleet performs the transportation of the following cargoes:

- iron ore raw material;

- coal and coke;

- grain cargoes;

- metal and various general cargoes;

- fertilizers in bulk and in pack;

- oil products with flashpoint above 61°C;

- machines and equipment;

- vehicles;

- containerized cargo;

- large-sized and heavy-weight cargoes.

The PJSC UDP fleet provides the river traffic along the whole navigable section of the river Danube from Ust-Dunaysk (Ukraine) and Constanţa (Romania) to Kellheim (Germany) and vice versa.

The cargo weight in pushed convoys sailing upwards against the stream runs up to 13000 t, downwards 7000-8500 t.

Along with the Danube traffic, the PJSC UDP river fleet performs the transportation of large-sized and heavy-weight cargoes in maritime traffic, mixed river-marine traffic as well as from the Mediterranean area to the Caspian Sea, also to the ports of Russian inland waterways.

The above-noted traffic is provided by specialized pontoons TMI-4 and four pontoons of PDM-10 type.

The given pontoons are designated for transportation of large-sized and heavy-weight cargoes, vehicles, trailers and containers from the port of shipment to the port of destination.

The pontoons are equipped with a power-plant, anchor arrangement, navigation lights, towing bridle for sea towing, automatic equipment for ballasting and safe navigation. The cargo operations are done by way of vertical and horizontal loading/unloading, as well as by roll-on and pulling down.

PONTOONS OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS:

OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS OF RIVER DRY CARGO NONSELF-PROPELLED FLEET:

OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS OF RIVER SELF-PROPELLED FLEET:

OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS OF RIVER PUSHERS: