Basic Design:   Provided by the Customer

Production Design (Hull Part):   Sea Tech, 2001

Customer:   Swets Shipping & Trading (NLD)

Shipyard:   Kama Shipbuilding Yard (Perm, RUS)

In the early 2000s, Dutch customers frequently contracted Russian shipyards for hull construction, with final outfitting and completion taking place in the Netherlands.

The hull of this river-sea vessel (Hull No. 938, LxBxT=110x11.4x3.5 m) is unique as one of the first in Russia to be fully designed using 'paperless' technology and 3D mathematical modeling of hull surfaces and structures. In the industry press of the early 2000s, this experience was highlighted as a landmark success for the first implementation of Sea Solution and Sea Solid systems for export contracts.

The professional community of that time linked this technological breakthrough directly to the Nizhny Novgorod school of design — the Sea Tech team and its proprietary software (authored by A.V. Aleksanov and E. Kirkemo).