United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) is going to enter in the management of JSC ”Northern Shipyard”, share of which it owns from October of this year.

The Prime Minister wished a success to shipwrights in their hard work on the upgrading of the fleet.

Celebrations were held today at a gas metering station near the town of Greifswald (Germany). The celebrations were dedicated to the commissioning of the first string of the Nord Stream gas pipeline.

Plant “Red Sormovo” (Director General Nikolai Zharkov, plant is a group of companies” Sea and oil and gas projects “) continues to build ten tankers, “Volga-Don max “class project RST27 deadweight in sea / river 6980/5378 tons.

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.