Shipbuilding news for June 2007

• DEFENSE NEWS JUNE
  The news review of June is here
  

  
  

• OSK to trim leasing
  United Shipbuidling Corporation is likely to trim the businesses based on leasing space from the shipyards
  

  
  

• Astrakhan to build 60 000 displacement tankers
  The Astrakhan based shipyards are ready to begin the construction of the tankers with the displacement of 60 thousand tons for the Caspian sea
  

  
  

• Vyborg Shipyard expands its authorized capital
  The board of directors the JSC «Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant» made a decision to increase the authorized capital of the factory
  

  
  

• Vladivostok Ship Repair Plants ceased its existence
  The meeting of shareholders of this JSC decided to close down the shipyard. According to the press release the enterprise is “liquidated voluntary, with the consent of all shareholders”
  

  
  

• Design bureau Vympel is still making money
  The shareholders of the JSC Design Bureau «Vympel» held that annual meeting of shareholders which elected the new board and approved financial performance
  

  
  

• New diving suit is tested for the Russian Navy
  The Baltic fleet of the Russian Navy is tested the newest survival suit intended for rescuers
  

  
  

• Azerbaijan wants to become a shipbuilding nation
  Today the country is building a shipyard in the Garadag district
  

  
  

• Floating office made in Arkhangelsk
  Arkhangelsk based «Petrovskaya Shipyard» built the first floating office
  

  
  

• Transas works for Iran
  Russian equipment maker equipped Iranian dry cargo carrier belonging to Irinvestship Limited with the radio navigation sets
  

  
  

• Ukraine is still building hulls
  Ukraine's Zaliv Shipyard concluded the contract with Dutch company Bodewes Shipyards on building two hulls
  

  
  

• Krasnoe Sormovo for Italy
  Nizhniy Novgorod based Krasnoe Sormovo (part of MNP) finished a new tanker «Maya» for the Italian shipping company Pietro Barbaro S.A.
  

  
  

• New unique tanker of Admiralty Shipyards
  «Admiralty Shipyards» held a solemn ceremony of laying down the new tanker of a strengthened ice class for the Russia’s largest shipping business Sovcomflot
  

  
  

• New hydrographic cater in the Far East
  Blagoveshchensk shipyard started water resistance tests of a new hydrographic boat being built at the order of the Ministry of Defense
  

  
  

• Russia is keen to have new aircraft carriers
  For years and years since the disintegration of the USSR experts and observers discussed just theoretical opportunities of constructing new aircraft carriers in Russia