Azerbaijan to get largest floating dock in Caspian Sea

A ceremony of launching the first block of the floating dock being built by order of the Azerbaijan State Caspian Shipping Company was held in the Russian city of Gorodets, the shipping company said on Saturday, Trend informs.

Besides officials, the public and media representatives, head of PR and information department of the shipping company Vugar Sadigov, head
 of the technical department Siyaset Aliyev and instructor-electrician Gennady Drobotov attended the ceremony.

The ceremony of laying the dock was held on December 25, 2011. The work on all six blocks of the dock is under way. The first block was ready for launch.

Sadigov said at the ceremony that the company's fleet has been enlarged by 10 tankers, six ferries and one dry cargo vessel in the last nine years.