On December, 17th, 2009 Federal Marine and River Transport Agency as a State Customer, «Directorate of the State Customer for Marine Transport Development Programmes» as a Customer and LLC «Nevsky Shipbuilding-Shiprepair Plant» as a Builder signed the State Contract for the construction of two multipurpose salvage vessels, capacity 4 MW.
«Nevsky Shipbuilding-Shiprepair Plant» got the right to conclude the given state contract having won the open competitive tender. The State Tender Committee announced the results of the tender on December, 05th of this year.
According to the terms of the signed State Contract «Nevsky Shipbuilding-Shiprepair Plant» will build two serial multipurpose salvage vessels, capacity 4 MW, yard №702 and №703.
Like the head vessel (yard № 701) which is under construction at our Shipyard at the moment, vessels under the given Contract will be built in accordance with the Design Project MPSV07, developed by «MARINE ENGINEERING BUREAU-DESIGN- SPB», JSC and approved by Federal Marine and River Transport Agency.
The vessels will have the following class of Russian Maritime Registry of Shipping: КМ 
Arc 5[1] AUT1- ICS OMBO FF3WS DYNPOS-2 EPP Salvage ship
Principle particulars:
· Length overall (appr.) …………………………….73,0 m
· Breadth on DWL ……………………………….. 15,5 m
· Draft, max. …………………………………………5,1 m
· Deadweight at maximum draft (appr.)…………… 1171 t
· Maximum capacity (not less)……….……… 2х2000 КW
· Economical speed (not less)…………………....10,0 knots
The multipurpose rescue vessels of project MPSV07 will perform the following tasks:
• stand by, rescue operation in areas of shipping, fishing, sea oil and gas fields
• providing technical support and assistance in dangerous for shipping, sea foods production areas, servicing of transport operations in ports
• search of and assistance to vessel is in distress
• search, rescue, evacuation and placing of people, providing first aid to injured persons
• refloat from ground and reef damaged vessels, pumping out water from flooded compartments
• towing service of damaged vessels and objects to shelter area, and also providing sea towing of vessels, floating objects and constructions in ice conditions and at open water;
• providing assistance to vessels and rescue operations in ice conditions and at open water;
• providing assistance at fire fighting at floating and coastal objects accessible from sea;
• supply and logistic support, including performing underwater engineering operations with divers at depth up to 60 m; and also deep-sea diving operations at depth to 300 m
• fire fighting of burning fuel on water, oil spills response service emergency oil and oil product spill
• survey and cleaning underwater hull of vessels, floating and coastal objects
• inspection of a sea-bottom and damaged objects on depths down to 1000 m.
According to the terms of the signed contract the vessels are intended for the port of Murmansk and for the port of St.-Petersburg.