Russian shipbuilding industry launches grand production of unique vessels

Certainly, OSK waits what it will be, how these orders will be distributed. Today the problem is not receiving the order. These three centers of the shipbuilding and existing capacities will work at full capacity in case the program of shelf development is implemented. The state defense order is known, it is in the state arms program till 2015. Everything is specified there and there will be no new orders. I.e. today we focus on civil sector, on home civil sector.

The plan of establishing a single shipyard on the basis of the shipbuilding assets of OSK is likely to take 5 years. The first stage is modernizing the existing capacities, it is within one year; ensuring the opportunities of building the ships with 80-100 thousand tons displacement – this it two more years. Finalizing the upgrade will take 5 years. This will be the largest civil shipyard in Russia, bigger will be only military Sevmash.

Regarding the competition: As a matter of fact so far all competition was around military orders. Today the portfolio of military orders is fixed. As for the export contracts, the portfolio of orders is either already known, or it is on the contrary highly questionable. The prime goal is ensuring the construction of large ships in Russia.

Yuri Seleznyov
Pravda.ru