Shipbuilding news for September 2007

• Military-Industrial Commission decided to finance the defense industry with oil money
  Acting First Vice-Premier Sergey Ivanov has set the task to develop a special program under which the defense enterprises would make goods and develop technologies for the oil and gas industry
  

  
  

• ROE and RAO EES set up a joint venture
  «Industrial Power Company» (PEK) will deliver the electric power to the enterprises of ROE
  

  
  

• ROE holds negotiations with the government of Venezuela
  ROE holds negotiations with the government of Venezuela on delivering a big number of transport planes
  

  
  

• First A-50EI to be shipped to Israel
  The first of the three AWAKS type planes A-50EI will be sent to Israel
  

  
  

• ROE set up a bearings holding
  The project is carried at under the name «Project GPZ» (GPZ- State Bearings Plant)
  

  
  

• The Kurganmash plans to export special equipment
  In 2008 Kurganmash plans to export special equipment totally worth $50-60 million
  

  
  

• Signing of the Russian-Indian intergovernmental agreement on MTA
  Signing of the Russian-Indian intergovernmental agreement on MTA is expected within a month-month and a half
  

  
  

• Russian shipbuilders have to hire foreigners
  Today the shipbuilding has the leading role in the social and economic development of the Astrakhan region
  

  
  

• Zelenodolsk shipyard to partake in Sochi-2014
  The Zelenodolsk Shipyard presented a ship intended for the winter Olympic Games of 2014
  

  
  

• Norwegian GS Rieber Skinn AS will build 12 small vessels in Russia
  Solombalskaya shipyard will build these vessels designed to hunt the Greenland seal
  

  
  

• Sevmash to take part in Gazprom’s tender
  Gazprom is to announce a tender on making operational technological platforms for Shtokman project
  

  
  

• Nizhedorodsky machine-building plant took part in the PATES tender
  The Nizhniy Novgorod machine-building plant took part in the pilot project of the world’s first floating atomic power station to be built for Severodvinsk
  

  
  

• State’s support to the shipbuilding is still lip service
  The Speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov visited the Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute
  

  
  

• USC to get a new head
  It is nearly certain that the being formed United Shipbuilding Corporation will get a news head
  

  
  

• Canadian Ambassador visited Zvezdochka
  On October, 1, 2007 the Ambassador of Canada to the Russian Federation Ralf Lisishin visited Zvezdochka
  

  
  

• The designer of marine simulators starts helicopter business
  Kazan helicopter plant will make first serial Mi-38 by 2011
  

  
  

• Nizhegorodsky Teplohod to build small sized ships
  The management of the JSC Nizhegorodsky Teplohod (part of MNP) considers small sized ships as one of the perspective directions of developing the shipyard
  

  
  

• Ukrainian shipbuilders lost state aids
  Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers decided to cancel the programs of state support to a number of shipbuilding enterprises
  

  
  

• Russia’s newest sub to be commissioned in 2009
  The newest multi-purpose nuclear submarine «Severodvinsk» will be commissioned with the Navy in 2009
  

  
  

• Russian Navy fights outdating
  According to the public statements of the Chief Technical Dept of the Russian Navy Vice-Admiral Nikolai Karachun nearly 50% of the naval ships have the prolonged life time and are maintained with regard to various sorts of restrictions
  

  
  

• Russian Navy will stay in Sevastopol
  In spite of the officially confirmed plans of removing the main base of the Russian Navy from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk it seems that the former will host a bigger part of the Russian Black Sea Navy in the foreseeable future
  

  
  

• OSK’s authorized capital is 1.098 billion rubles
  The authorized capital of the United Shipbuilding Corporation has been formed
  

  
  

• Russian shipbuilding remains uncompetitive
  Domestic shipbuilding industry cannot meet neither the demand of the foreign customers, nor of even own (national customers)
  

  
  

• Transas started deliveries to India
  Transas started the deliveries of the electronic maps and navigation systems for the Indian Navy