Industry news

The Russian Navy’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is set to be finished by 2023. This news was brought to journalists by Roman Trotsenko, who heads the United Shipbuilding Coroporation (OSK), on 30 June 2011 at the 5th International Maritime Defence Show in St.Petersburg.

According to informed sources of the publishing house “Maritime news of Russia” the attitude of the RF State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, to a draft law on support for shipbuilding and shipping is very serious and positive.

Unsurprisingly, the shipbuilding industry has become a leader in terms of the industry production growth rate in 2010 in the Arkhangelsk region.
As reported by Ilya Mikhalchuk, the governor of the region, last year the industrial production index in the region reached 115%, which is higher than the average rate across Russia

OOO “Nevsky Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant” (Shlisselburg, the Leningrad region) has built up the stock of orders for the next 3 years that amounts to 7 billion roubles. This statement came from Vladimir Bazhenov, as the Plant’s Press Service informs.

The Ministry of Transport has successfully resolved 23 disagreements with the Federal Executive Authorities on the proposed Law almost without withdrawals. The final approval is expected from the Ministry of Finance which so far refuses to approve zero rate insurance contributions for shipbuilders.

“Vnesheconombank will guarantee payment recovery to the companies that order ships from the United Shipbuilding Corporation shipyards”, said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

OAO “October Revolution Shipbuilding Plant” in the city of Blagoveschensk has started construction of a RS600 class seiner fishing boat. The vessel was ordered by Lenin Collective Farm – the largest fishing enterprise of the region, the Kamchatka region press service reports.

According to the Head of the Federal Fishery Agency of the Russian Federation Andrey Krajny, who visited Kaliningrad in the course of his working trip, the fishing fleet of the country will be enlarged from west.

TRANSAS has completed the launch of the trial monitoring and correction stations of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) and GPS on the inland waterways in the regions of Omsk, Khanty-Mansysk and Pechory. TRANSAS informs that these actions are aimed at implementing integrated technology to use GLONASS system on the inland waterways of the Russian Federation.

Russian Deputy Minister of Transport Viktor Olersky participated in the General Meeting of the Union of Russian Ship Owners (SOROSS) which was held on 28 January 2011.
In his speech Viktor Olersky told the audience about the Transport Ministry’s legislative-drafting activities in the field of marine transport in 2010 and about the Ministry’s plans for 2011, reads the statement of the Ministry of Transport.