Navigation Aids Installation and Maintenance Services

     1. General information
     2. Navigation aids installation and maintenance terms and conditions
     3. Statistics
     4. Contacts


     1. General information


     The FSUE “Rosmorport” Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch Azov Department conducts the following types of works in the seaports of Azov, Rostov-on-Don, and Taganrog:

     - installation and maintenance of floating and coastal navigational aids equipment to protect fairways, water areas, underwater (water intakes) and overwater facilities;

     - installation and maintenance of coastal information signs in the seaports of Azov and Rostov-on-Don;

     - installation and maintenance of navigational signs light-optical equipment.

     The works on installation and maintenance of navigational aids equipment are conducted by high-quality personnel of the Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch Azov Department under guidance of hydrographical engineers and experts on low-voltage equipment and construction, in accordance with the approved schemes and projects elaborated in conformity with the normative documents on seaways navigational equipment.

     To conduct the works the Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch Azov Department disposes of necessary equipment, technical and floating facilities:

     - two buoy-setting vessels Briz and MZ-315 and a pilot boat Yuri Romanchenko based in the seaports of Azov, Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog, equipped by cargo devices and GPS navigation devices;

     - pilot post for preparation and maintenance of the floating navigational aids equipment.



     2. Navigation aids installation and maintenance terms and conditions


     To order services on floating navigational aids and/or navigational signs installation and maintenance in the seaports of Azov, Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog, please send a written application to the Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch Azov Cepartment by fax: +7 (863) 218-53-59, or e-mail: mail@azv.rosmorport.ru . The application will be reviewed by the Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch Azov Department and within 5 days the client will receive an answer on the technical possibility, terms and cost of the requested works. If the client accepts the terms of the Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch Azov Department on providing the services, a draft standard contract is sent to the client for signing. The signed contract shall be returned to the FSUE “Rosmorport” Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch Azov Department.

     The Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch Azov Department provides services in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contract.


     Information on tariffs for the services of the Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch Azov Department on navigation aids installation and maintenance is available in the section “Harbour Dues and Tariffs of the Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch”.


     3. Statistics


     Information on the number of navigational aids of third-party organizations installed and maintained by the Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch Azov Department in the seaports of Azov, Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog

Year Number of installed and
maintained navigational aids
2012–2019 ⇲
2012 3
2013 2
2014 2
2015 3
2016 2
2017 2
2018 2
2019
2020 2
2021 2
2022 2
2023 2


     4. Contacts


     For additional information on the terms and conditions of navigational aids installation and maintenance by the Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch Azov Department in the water areas of the seaports of Azov, Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog, please contact:

     +7 (863) 287-00-20 (on working days from 08:30 till 17:30 Moscow time),

     or send a request by fax: +7 (863) 218-53-59 or e-mail: mail@azv.rosmorport.ru