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На сегодняшний день в
составе флота группы
компаний «Альянс» 22 судна
различного назначения.
Основная специализация
компании – внутрипортовые
и морские буксировки,
обеспечение морских
шельфовых проектов и
судовой менеджмент
Alliance Group currently has
a fleet of 22 vessels of various ing teams), as well as installation and dismantling of
components of the offshore structures.
profiles, its core business
including deep sea and harbour Experience and prospects
towages, servicing of offshore One new line of operations we have taken up just
projects, and ships management recently is dredging. After the Big 4 dredging com-
panies based in Holland and Belgium withdrew from
the Russian market, we decided to step into their
We started out as a provider of mooring and tow- place and thus acquired the GeoRover dredging ship.
age in the Kola Bay, which had for many years been It has a design that makes it suitable for use on dif-
the basing site for many ships. But as the shipping ficult rocky bottoms 18.5 meters deep. And we are
operations began to increase across the Arctic region, currently negotiating the purchase of a second ship
the auxiliary fleet had to be re-adjusted to meet the of its kind.
increasing needs of large infrastructure projects. We Another line of operations we see as highly prom-
see our growth path as getting ourselves better pre- ising is icebreaking services. We already have some
pared to meet both current and future needs of our good experience of managing third owners’ icebreak-
charterers. We are trying to identify problems before ing vessels – Toboy and Varandey in our case. As a
they arise. strategically important region, the Arctic offers prom-
Over the past two years, the group’s fleet, which ising opportunities and, given our experience and
consisted mainly of towing tugs, has more than dou- long-term presence in high latitudes, we think we’ll
bled. Its current ship-handling tugs are multifunc- be able to gain ground in this line of services. Our
tional and provide mooring, linear ocean towing. and recent purchase Ajax is an Arc5, 7,000 HP tug, and
anchoring of berth-connected ships, drilling rigs and there’s one more tug we are soon competing the pur-
other facilities. chase of, that has a capacity of 11,000 HP. SOZVEZDYE #42
Other recent purchases include three multitask Along with the expansion of our fleet, we are in-
offshore supply ships Nefrit, Izumrud and Rubin. In- creasing the geography of our presence. We currently
stalled with dynamic positioning systems, they are operate in the waters of the Baltic, Barents, Kara Seas, флот
capable of maintaining precise position at sea in au- Primorsky Krai and Kamchatka, and have offices in fleet
tomatic mode. Nefrit and Izumrud have 110-ton ca- Vyborg, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, and Moscow. We
pacity cranes for handling surface and underwater have been quite successful overcoming the conse-
objects. The vessels of their kind are used primarily quences of sanctions and restrictions being faced by
for supply purposes and as carriers of offshore bound many Russian companies, and there’s certainly more
personnel. They also assist in underwater works and to achieve now that there’s so much more room for
surveys (through remotely piloted vehicles and div- development. 63