Neva-leader-1

OJSC North-Western Shipping Company has started the operation of MV Neva-Leader 1, lead vessel of a series of dry bulk carriers of Project RSD49, the carrier’s news release said. On December 15, the ship laden with a cargo of rolled steel departed Kaliningrad and headed for a Belgium port. The multipurpose Volga-Don max dry cargo ships of Project RSD49 with deadweight of 7,000 tons are the largest of the existing Russian ‘river-sea’ class dry bulk carriers. The vessels are designed for transportation of general and bulk cargoes, including steel, grain, timber, coal, oversized and heavy-lift and dangerous cargoes of classes 1.4S, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.1, 8, 9 by IC IMDG and Annex B of the BC Code in the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Baltic, White and North seas, including sailings around Europe and in the Irish Sea during winter season.