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Yantar Shipyard wins RF Ministry of Defense tender for construction of three frigates for Black See Fleet

October 13, 2010

Yantar Shipyard (Kaliningrad) was reported by the shipyard press service to have won a tender by the RF Ministry of Defense for construction of three frigates for the Black See Fleet

Roman Trotsenko - “Giving away catch quotas means letting fishing companies dissipate the national wealth”

October 04, 2010

Catch quotas must be given to fishing companies on the condition that they will hire the boat at a home shipyard. More information…

New atomic icebreaker to be finished by 2016

October 04, 2010

“An idea to build new icebreakers to work in the Arctic was supported by the Marine Board members. More information…

Pella Shipyard plans to construct new facilities totaling to 1.5 milliard roubles in the settlement of Sapiorny, situated in the Leningrad region, before the end of 2012.

October 01, 2010

Pella Shipyard plans to construct new facilities totaling to 1.5 milliard roubles in the settlement of Sapiorny, situated in the Leningrad region, before the end of 2012. The new shipyard will manufacture the same products as the present one, namely industrial ships such as tugs, pilot boats and vessels of full-scale waste processing. More information…

Ukraine and Russia intend to renew their merchant shipping together

September 29, 2010

According to the Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov, Ukraine is willing to realize jointly with the Russian Federation projects aimed at the renewal of the merchant shipping of the two countries. More information…

It is planned to allocate 14 milliard roubles from the national budget for the support of the Russian shipbuilding industry in 2011

September 27, 2010

It was planned to allocate 14 milliard roubles from the national budget for support of the Russian shipbuilding industry in 2011 More information…

Onega Shipyard floats out a dry-cargo carrier of river-sea class Kapitan Zhikharev

September 22, 2010

Onega Shipyard (Petrozavodsk, the Republic of Karelia) floated out the sixth multi-purpose dry-cargo motor-ship of about 4,500 DWT of the project DCV33.More information…

Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard plans to increase the speed of construction up to 9 ships in 2011

September 20, 2010

According to Vadim Malov, Chief Executive Officer of MNP Group, which manages Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard (Nizhny Novgorod), they plan to increase the speed of construction up to 9 ships in 2011.More information…

Sovcomflot and United Shipbuilding Corporation introduce to Vladimir Putin a project of building a series of tankers at a new super yard

September 20, 2010

The group of companies Sovcomflot and United Shipbuilding Corporation completed new shipbuilding project development. The project proposes building a series of Aframax oil carriers (118,000 DWT) and LR2 oil carriers (117,800 DWT)

The oil carrier Kirill Lavrov is put into service

September 16, 2010

A ceremony devoted to the putting of the oil carrier Kirill Lavrov into service took place at Admiralteyskie Verfi