On October 25th, 2013, Delivery-Acceptance act for the sixth dry-cargo vessel "NEVA-LEADER 6" of RSD49 project was signed. The vessel was built at Nevsky Shipyard for North-Western Shipping Company, JSC. The project is developed by Marine Engineering Bureau-Design-SPb, JSC.
Multipurpose dry-cargo vessels of deadweight more than 7000 tons RSD49 project are the largest of the existing dry-cargo vessels of “river-sea” type in Russia. The vessels are intended for transportation of general and bulk cargoes including grain, timber and large-dimension cargoes in the Caspian Sea as well as in the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, White Sea and North Sea including routes around Europe and on the Irish Sea in winter.