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Palmali Group takes delivery of 7,100dwt tanker Gobustan

Palmali Group took delivery on Friday, October 21st the fourth 7,100DWT tanker of project RST22M. The vessel named Gobustan was built at Yalova-based Besiktas Shipyard, Marine Engineering Bureau said. Keel-laying of the fourth serial ship of RST22M (build number 15) was held on December 18, 2009. The vessel was launched on August 27, 2011. In late May, Palmali executed an option for 15 newbuilds of Armada series (project RST22M) with Besiktas Shipyard. The Turkish shipbuilder plans to perform the order by the end of 2013. Two tankers of the series have been put into operation. The Project RST22M tankers are successors of Project 005RST01, or "Armada" first series. The Armada serial ships were designed by Marine Engineering Bureau for Palmali Group and built at the shipyards of Selah and ADA in Tuzla (Turkey) in 2002 -2006. The Project RST22m is an updated version of the 2nd series tankers (Project RST22), which were built at Nizhny Novgorod-based Krasnoye Sormovo in 2008-2009. Ten tankers of the first Armada and five tankers of the New Armada have been engaged in 'river-sea' transportation of crude oil, fuel oil, diesel fuel and other petroleum products and vegetable oils. The vessels also carry the commodities on the shipping lanes in the Caspian, Black, Mediterranean, Baltic and North Seas, including the routes around Europe and in the Irish Sea. The new series tankers satisfy the Volga-Don Canal and the Volga-Baltic dimensions. RST22M project vessel main specifications - 139.95 m, breadth - 16.6 m, depth - 6,0 m; built to ‘Volga-Don max’ class.