Hovercraft and pontoons - Svir Shipyard

Hovercraft is a unique vehicle making it possible to deliver cargoes and passengers to the most remote places inaccessible to other means of transport. Impassability and bogs, water space and an ice fields are not obstacles for them. This allows to use hovercraft in situations unsoluble by another way. In some regions they are actually the unique alternative to air transport and provide local inhabitants with everything necessary in the period of limited navigation.

Due to their exclusive characteristics, the hovercraft have deserved popularity among specialists of emergency services, armed forces, geological exploration and other services. However, they are widely used even in everyday life, allowing to reach places otherwise inaccessible, for example, for hunting or fishing trips and other kinds of recreation activities.

The hovercraft manufactured by the Svir Shipyard, OJSC are reliable vehicles with a lot of advantages. They may operate the whole year round, allowing to move over water surface, thin or thawing ice, deep snow, bogs and on flat terrains. Their exclusive maneuverability provides for transporting cargoes and passengers at a high speed and making a 360° turn in limited space conditions.

Private use of hovercraft presents no difficulties as their service and operation practically does not differ from that of a usual car. Particular design of the air cushion provides maximum safety even in case of careless passing over an obstacle, a log or a stone. It is possible to learn how to drive our hovercraft in a few hours of training with our professional instructor, after which the captain is given the corresponding certificate.

Another field of activity of Svir Shipyard, OJSC is the manufacture of ferro-concrete floating pontoons. With their help, it is possible to equip a mooring, build a floating hotel or any other structure quickly and without significant expense. When the ferro-concrete pontoons are installed, no arrangements of coastal territory are required, so the intervention into ecology of water reservoir is minimal. Design features of the pontoons guarantee their exclusive reliability during fluctuations of water level, by keeping constant the elevation. The moorings made of our ferro-concrete pontoons provide for mooring even of large marine vessels. Due to special manufacturing techniques, high reliability of all structures, stability of metal elements to corrosion in fresh and salt sea water and convenience of laying communication lines are achieved.

The hovercraft and the ferro-concrete floating pontoons manufactured by the Svir Shipyard, OJSC are on demand both in Russia and abroad for their high quality.