Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 20
Maksim Tsurkov - Trend:
Azerbaijan's Caspian Shipping Company increased the number of vessels sailing in international waters, The company reported.
The dry-cargo ship "Gafur mammadov" belonging to the shipping company will be operated in international waters.
The vessel with a deadweight of 5,500 tons was built in Nizhny Novgorod. Its length is 108.3 meters, width - 16.5 meters, draft - 4.79 meters.
Thus, the number of the company's ships operating outside the Caspian Sea reached 12, of which 11 are dry cargo ships and one tanker.
The Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping CJSC was established by merging country's two largest fleets - the Azerbaijan State Caspian Sea Shipping Company and the Caspian Sea Oil Fleet of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic, on October 22, 2013.
The merchant fleet consists of 98 vessels: 34 tankers, 13 ferries, 14 universal dry-cargo, 2 Ro-Ro ships as well as 35 different auxuliary ships. And the offshore support fleet is comprised of 188 vessels of which 21 crane vessels, 22 supply and tug vessels, 29 passenger ships, 2 pipelay barges, 7 firefighting vessels, 5 geological survey vessels, 11 diving support vessels, and 84 other support vessels.