Shipbuilding news for November 2003

• Russian government wants to give the Russian flag back to the Russian fleet
  This week Vice Prime Minister Vladimir Yakovlev once again promised the ship owners to make Russian flag convenient
  

  
  

• Baltiysky Zavod received ISO 9001-2000
  The certificate confirms that the factory's system of management corresponds to contemporary international standards
  

  
  

• ING Bank will fund a new ice-breaker for FESCO
  The Dutch bank and the Far Eastern Shipping Company have concluded the agreement on building and buying a new ice breaker
  

  
  

• Foreign companies expressed interest in the Russian design of a submarine power station
  During the 52nd World Salon of Innovations, Scientific Developments and New Technologies the designer from the city of Ulyanovsk Nuriazdan Aleev presented his own design of a submarine power station
  

  
  

• The new tanker Jalil Mamedkuliadze has been launched in the Caspian Sea
  The new tanker with the payload of 8000 tons was built by Russian shipyard Krasnoe Sormovo
  

  
  

• St. Petersburg branch of Alpha Bank has allocated the credit for the CKB Rubin to build the sub
  The information came from the PR dept of the bank, however, the sum of the credit is not revealed
  

  
  

• Rybinsk based Vympel will build the newest cater for the Russian Ministry on Emergencies
  According to the First Deputy Emergencies Minister Yuri Vorobyev Vympel will make the multi role fast fire-rescue cater Mangust
  

  
  

• Rosoboronexport participates in the naval salon IMDEX in Singapore
  The state run military exporter presents 200 models of the naval arms and machinery made by 12 companies
  

  
  

• Sevmash prepares for utilization of the Typhoon sub
  Sevmash is completing the preparations for docking the 712 Typhoon sub. The 712 subs is to replace the 711 sub Dmitry Donskoi
  

  
  

• Sponsors like “Sharks”
  The repair of the nuclear sub Dmitry Donskoy is nearing completion. All major works have been finished
  

  
  

• Evaluation of the groups of customers of own caters and yachts in Russia
  According to the General Director of the company Kvartet Yuri Baranov the composition of the owners of the small vessels in Russia
  

  
  

• Bryansk Machine Building Plant (BMZ) builds two diesels for Vyborg shipyard
  BMZ has signed the contract and already started building two DB57 diesels for Vyborg shipyard
  

  
  

• Yantar Shipyard will build two vessels for Holland
  Yantar has signed the contract with the Dutch Zanen on building two multi purpose vessels for carrying chemical cargoes
  

  
  

• Nuclear waste storage to be built in Murmansk region
  A storehouse for reactor tanks will be built on the Kola Peninsula over the course of the next six years to store accumulated radioactive waist from atomic submarines
  

  
  

• Leonid Strugov elected the Chairman of the Board of the Yantar Shipyard
  Leonid Strugov is the head of one of the departments of the Russian Shipbuilding Agency
  

  
  

• Russian Shipbuilding Portal extends its English version
  Apart from extending inside Russia with its two new representations, Russian Shipbuilding Portal is actively developing its English version
  

  
  

• The Concern of Medium and Small Tonnage Shipbuilding has far reaching plans
  Concern of Medium and Small Tonnage Shipbuilding (KSMK) plans to build two project 971 subs
  

  
  

• Russian Shipbuilding Portal opened two representations in the shipbuilding regions
  Pending the 307 anniversary of the Russian Fleet to be celebrated on Oct, 30 ShipbuildingRu opened two official representations
  

  
  

• “Zaporozhye” sub and the warship “Donbass” will be commissioned with the Ukrainian navy
  The State Commission on Developing and Reforming the Armed Forces of the Ukraine headed by the Prime Minister Victor Yanukovich approved the plans of commissioning the sub “Zaporozhye” and the warship “Donbass”
  

  
  

• Foreign companies expressed interest in the technologies of Severny Reid
  Russian Shipbuilding Portal was the first among Russian media sources to report on Severny Reid’s technologies of improving floating and safety capabilities of the decommissioned ships
  

  
  

• Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd launched a new tanker for the Russian customer
  According to the press release of the Russian MoT on October, 27 the tanker “Ligovsky Prospect” got at the disposal of JSC Sovcomflot
  

  
  

• Krasny Yakor started making extra strong anchor chains
  The plant started the program of upgrading its production facilities which will go on till 2010
  

  
  

• Russian aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov” completed sailing tests
  The tests in the Kolsky bay of the project 11435 “Eagle” aircraft carrier have been completed successfully
  

  
  

• Tranzas equipped the new tanker built by Admiralty Shipyards
  On October 27, 2003, the oil tanker "Troitskiy Most", built by Admiralty Shipyards and equipped with radio-navigation, communication and satellite broadcasting system made by the company Tranzas
  

  
  

• Ukrainian MPs are against utilizing the “Ukraine” warship
  The unfinished “Ukraine” has been the focus of various disputes among the Ukrainian MPs, sometimes within one faction