In the second quarter of 2010, freight costs for supertankers may decrease by 35% due to scheduled maintenance at oil refineries of various countries – from Japan to Great Britain. This is why vessel oversupply will emerge. More information…

OMZ-Foundry, part of OMZ Group, signed a contract with OAO SRC Zvezdochka (Severodvinsk) for delivery of 6 propeller screws 2.8 m in diameter and 6.1 tons each. End item acceptance will be held under the control of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, says the communication of OMZ. More information…

OOO Nevsky Shipbuilding-Shiprepair Plant (Schlusselburg, the Leningrad Region) launched Bergen Tank, a bunker-tanker of SK4902/10021 project, constructed for Haugland Tankers AS (Norway, affiliate of Bergen Tankers AS). More unformation…

The domestic shipbuilding is likely not to provide Russian O&G producing companies with necessary amount of tankers and drilling platforms for shelf operations. Only one of three large shipbuilding zones located in various regions of Russia was laid in the end of the last year. The Far East one. More information…

Baltiysky Zavod hurled back penalty payment for delay in handover of two icebreakers. The plant proved there was no contract for construction. More information…

OAO Pella signed the state contract for delivery of 3 project 90600 tugs for needs of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The tugs are to be commissioned in 2010-2011. More information…

The multi-purpose corvette Soobrazitelny was launched at the Shipbuilding Yard Severnaya Verf, Saint-Petersburg, on March 31, 2010. More information…

OAO Admiralteyskie Verfi (Saint-Petersburg) delivered to a foreign customer a diesel-electric Kilo class submarine (DES), project 636. The ship handover certificate was signed the previous day, communicated to IAA PortNews at the enterprise. More information…

On April 6, 2010, OOO Nevsky Shipbuilding-Shiprepair Plant (Schlusselburg, the Leningrad Region) is to launch a coastal bunker-tanker Bergen Tank, project SK4902/10021. More information…

The single Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov, part of project 1143.5, is to be upgraded at the shipbuilding facility Sevmash in Severodvinsk (the Arkhangelsk Region). More information…