Modern effective manufacture is inseparable from automation of each of the stages – from design to technical support. It is true for shipbuilding, too. However taking into account its specific character, solutions offered for other branches are not always suitable for enterprises engaged in ship construction. That is why development of niche tailored information systems is necessary. One of the leading developers of such systems is Tree Tronix Technology, Russia. We bring to your notice an interview with its director Aleksander Ankhimov.

Marine Industry of Russia Forum has completed successfully. Director of Subsea-Technical Equipment Department of AOA Tetis Pro Aleksey Aleksandrovich Kayfadzhyan shares his impressions and results of participation.

Success at the world market can be achieved by various means. Some companies select “carpet bombing” addressing all possible areas – from electric kettles to TPP turbines. Others strive to attain perfection in one selected area.

Finnish ATA Gears participating Marine Industry of Russia Forum selected the second way – for 70 years it has been producing spiral bevel pinions for the shipbuilding, automobile construction and heavy machine building industries. Today its products are deemed to be the best in the world.

Technical expert Pekka Hoikkala told us about company’s activity in details.

We continue publishing interviews with participants of Marine Industry of Russia Forum. Now we are talking with General Director of Technical Research Center Elektroresurs Medvetsky Valery Mikhailovich.

At Marine Industry of Russia Forum leading companies rendering services related to ships’ operation will be featured. Among them is Insurance Society Region Soyuz engaged in insurance legal persons including shipbuilding entities.

General Director of OOO Insurance Society Region Soyuz Ph. D. in Economics Vladimir Evgenievich Zvyagin tells about company’s history, prospects and expectations related to participation in Marine Industry of Russia Forum.

MARINE BANK have been working on the banking market for 21 years and it is one of the oldest financial institutes of Russia.

CEO of Marine Bank Igor Fedorovich Dergunov tells about current state of the Russian fleet, need for shipyard upgrading, problems of Russian financial institutes’ support to shipping companies.

Dynamic implementation of public-private programmes makes it possible to build plans for modernization of the Russian transport infrastructure. Today the issue of competitive strength of Russian ports is of immediate interest.

Our journalist asked questions related to these topic to the heads of FGU Rostransmodernizatsiya – General Director Igor Yurievich Zyablitsky and Adviser General Director for private-public partnership Ph. D. in Economics Vitaly Vyacheslavovich Maksimov.

REP Holding is the single national enterprise ready to effect turn-key packaged deliveries of complicated ship electro-technical and electric-power systems including propulsion systems.

General Director of ZAO Scientific Producing Center “Shipping Electric Propulsion” (affiliate of ZAO REP Power Plant Holding) Andrey Vladimirovich Grigoriev, Candidate of Science (Engineering) tells about history of the Holding, last works and prospective innovations

Marine Industry of Russia Forum will bring together leading marine transport enterprises. Among them, there is OAO “Murmansk Shipping Company” being one of the first-rate transportation carrier operating under the Russian flag.

The company’s life, future plans and expectations concerning the Forum participation were told us about by Director General of OAO “MSCO” Alexander Medvedev.

The international Forum “Marine Industry of Russia” is to take place in Moscow from 19 till 21 May, 2010. Leading shipbuilding enterprises of Russia are going to contribute to the work of the Forum. The United Industrial Corporation (OPK) is one of them.

Director of OPK Project “Shipbuilding” and General Director of Severnaya Verf and Baltiysky Zavod Andrey Fomichev is telling about prospects and new trends of the shipbuilding in Russia as well as about development of the icebreaker fleet.

Within the frameworks of Marine Industry of Russia Forum, the meeting of leading specialists in the area of shipbuilding and Freight Traffic is to take place. ZAO NPF Mikran, Tomsk, is to participate in the meeting, too.

Tatiana Popova, Cand. Sc. Development Deputy General Director of ZAO NPF Mikran told about objectives of participating in the Forum, the company and one of its recent developments – next generation radar system.