Barges and floating cranes: “Kovalska” purchased a fleet for work on the Dnipro and Desna
12.07.2023 - 16:40
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The well-known Ukrainian construction and industrial group “Kovalska” plans to develop the production of river sand.
Construction and industrial group “Kovalska” acquired a number of companies and equipment in order to develop its own mining of river sand, writes CTS.
The group plans to work on the Dnipro River in Kyiv Oblast and on the Desna River in Chernihiv Oblast.
Thus, the company concludes an agreement for the purchase of the river fleet, in particular, self-propelled and non-self-propelled barges, pusher tugs, floating cranes, equipment for underwater soil development and loading onto watercraft.
The new asset has a capacity of up to 1 million tons per year.
“Sand is the basic building material for the reconstruction of Ukraine — roads, production of concrete, reinforced concrete structures, mixtures. We are also reducing dependence on external supplies and related operational and reputational risks,” said Serhiy Pylypenko, CEO of the group.
Currently, Kovalska has sand, sandstone and limestone deposits in the Lviv region, granite deposits in the Zhytomyr region, and channel sand deposits on the Dnipro and Desna rivers in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions.
According to the media, in 2019 “Kovalska” estimated its annual production capacity of commercial concrete and mortar at 4.6 million cubic meters. So, for the production of one cubic meter of concrete, 0.4 – 0.8 tons of sand are needed. At that time, Kovalska’s annual need for sand was estimated at more than 2.5 million tons.
Note.
Industrial and construction group (PBG) “Kovalska” was formed in 1956, when “Factory of reinforced concrete products No. 3” began to work.
In 1982, the enterprise was headed by Svitlana Kovalska.
After her death in 1993, the plant was renamed the Ferroconcrete Structures Plant. Svetlana Kovalska.
An interesting fact — in 2020, PBG “Kovalska” joined the project to modernize the scientific research Antarctic station “Akademik Vernadskyi”. In January 2021, a ship with 70 tons of various cargo left for Antarctica to repair and modernize the station. Of these, 40 tons are components for the concrete mixture from Kovalska.
