VOSTA LMG Successful in Iran

VOSTA LMG received a contract for the delivery of an engineering and components package for a CSD500S from a well-respected customer in Iran. This contract entails building a CSD500S, which will be self-propelled. The dredge will be built in Iran with the owner and is scheduled to be ready in 2005. The owner plans to use the dredge for deepening the basin and maintenance work in the area of Chabahar in Iran.
Recently VOSTA LMG delivered a CSD500S to SADRA Industrial and Marine Group. This project, which was won in 2002 by VOSTA LMG has been executed with partner shipyard Iran Marine Industrial Group (SADRA). Leading engineering and contracting company VOSTA LMG has done the basic engineering and delivered the dredge systems like the electrical, hydraulic and diesel installation and components such as cutter, cutter ladder front part, spud carrier and dredge pump. Partner shipyard SADRA has assembled the dredge under supervision of the VOSTA LMG project manager onsite. Furthermore VOSTA LMG did the commissioning of the dredge and provided a crew training course.
The CSD500S has been built at the Iran Marine Industrial Group (SADRA) shipyard in Neka, Iran for the Iranian customer PSO (Port and Shipping Organisation). The dredge received the name "Shahid Rashidi" and has been handed over to PSO.
The CSD500S is of a dismountable type, equipped with a VOSTA SC10 cutting system has an onboard accommodation for 4 crewmembers and is designed to work in maintenance projects in the Caspian sea area.