New boats will go on line in Sevastopol next year

Two new boats will arrive in the city at the end of this year, and three more next year, the acting director said. Deputy Governor Pavel Ieno in the news program “Vesti. Sevastopol».

We purchased five boats. We are expecting two boats this year. Now the boats are in Rostov and are preparing to move to Sevastopol. This year we will receive two boats. We will accept them: conduct mooring and sea trials. Next year we plan to put them on line. We also expect the arrival of three more boats in 2025. Thus, we will receive all the boats for which a contract was concluded with the state transport leasing company,” Pavel Jeno is quoted as saying by the Sevastopolskaya Gazeta.

He recalled that five more boats of the State Unitary Enterprise Sevelektroavtotrans named after. A.S.Krupoderova» are currently being repaired. Two of them should be ready by the end of the year.

At the same time, the launch of two new and two repaired boats will not solve the problems with passenger sea transportation, but will significantly improve the quality of the services provided.

Five new passenger boats for sea passenger transportation on four routes: city — Severnaya, Artillery Bay — Radiogorka, city — Inkerman, city — Holland — were ordered by the government of Sevastopol in 2019. According to the non-commercial leasing program for land and sea passenger transport, the boats were to be delivered by May 1, 2022. The total value of the contract at that time was 1.245 billion rubles. The customer of the work was PJSC State Transport Leasing Company. The boats were to be built by JSC Central Design Bureau Neptun (St. Petersburg), JSC Nefteflot (Samara) and JSC Shipbuilding Plant Vympel (Yaroslavl Region).

source: «Sevastopol newspaper»