MNMS Lebed (oil and refuse collection vessel)

2025: Launching

At the end of September 2025, Petrozavodsk launched the oil and refuse collection unit of the NE028 MNMS Lebed project on September 30, 2025. The vessel is being built at the Onega Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant by order of FSUE Rosmorport. The NE028 project is being implemented in Russia for the first time. The oil and refuse collector was the first in a series of two such vessels.

The modernization of the enterprise's capacities was ensured thanks to the support of the head of the Republic of Karelia Artur Parfenchikov and the regional government. The work of the state commission to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the republic also contributed to the development of the plant. The commission at that time was headed by the secretary of the Security Council of Russia, and now the assistant to the president of the country and the chairman of the Maritime College Nikolai Patrushev.

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Фото: Rosmorport

Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Karelia Andrei Sergeyev congratulated the plant workers at the ceremony of launching the oil and refuse collection vessel. According to him, each launch of a new vessel is another step of the country towards technological sovereignty. Andrei Sergeyev stressed that this is a Russian ship built at a Russian plant. The Prime Minister wished the factory workers success in further work, and the ship - seven feet under the keel.

The vessels of the NE028 project are designed to operate in the water area of ​ ​ ports, on the roadstead and in the coastal zone. The main purpose is to collect water and transport floating debris. The oil and refuse collection tank collects watered petroleum products with a flash point above 60 ° C without entering the oil slick. Such products include diesel, heavy fuel and oils.

The vessel can operate at sea water temperatures up to 0 degrees. Occasional swimming is possible in the shallow, rarefied ice of the non-Arctic seas up to 0.4 meters thick. The length of the vessel is 15.5 meters. The width reaches 6 meters. Technical characteristics allow the vessel to perform tasks in various climatic conditions.^[1]

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