Shipbuilding news for October 2007

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• New Mirazh for the Russian Border Guard Service
  Rybinsk based shipyard Vympel (part of KSMK) finished the construction of the regular fast cater of the project 14310 Mirazh
  

  
  

• Russian Zvezda develops relations with the Italian CRM Motori
  Russian manufacturer of the ship diesel engines Zvezda together with the Italian partner
  

  
  

• New shipyard in the Russian North
  There will a new shipyard in the Russian town of Surgut
  

  
  

• BMZ starts business with Vietnam
  Leading engineers of the department of external installations of "Bryansk Machine-building Plant»
  

  
  

• Northern Shipyard started Algerian order
  Northern shipyard started repair and modernization of two ships of the Algerian Navy
  

  
  

• 20380 finished tests
  The state tests of the head project 20380 corvette "Stereguschi" have been successfully completed
  

  
  

• Up to 15% of the new shares of the UAC will be sold to the Russian state banks
  This is toraise $1,5 billion
  

  
  

• No money for the ships in the Far East
  The enterprises to enter the Far East Center of Shipbuilding and Ship Repair cannot find money for changing the from of ownership
  

  
  

• Development of Innovative-Technological Sphere in the Industry of St.-Petersburg for 2006-2008
  The government approved the report of the Chairman of the Committee of Economic Development Alexey Sergeev regarding the implementation of the Program of the Development of Innovative-Technological Sphere in the Industry of St.-Petersburg for 2006-2008
  

  
  

• Russia builds up its submarine fleet
  In 2008 Sevmash will lay down one more nuclear submarine of the last generation
  

  
  

• Volgograd Shipyard will build ships for Lithuania
  Volgograd Shipyard concluded the contract on a series of dry-cargo sea ships of the project DCV33
  

  
  

• Amur Shipyard brought in the water Indian seismic vessel
  The vessel of seismic investigation which is under construction at the order of the Oil-and-Gas Corporation is intended for searching oil and gas on the depths of up to 4 thousand meters
  

  
  

• Bryansk Shipyard solved old problems
  Bryansk Shipyard solved old problems
  

  
  

• Zvezda shipyard suggests a civil shipbuilding program
  General director of Zvezda Shipyard Yuri Shulgin presented the project of creating in its territory an assembly of the medium tonnage ships
  

  
  

• Ukrainian shipbuilding grows
  The sales volumes of the Ukrainian shipbuilding in the 8 months of the current year made 1 billion 271,5 million UAH, which is 10% on top of the corresponding period of 2006
  

  
  

• Ukrainian Liman built a mega yacht
  Nikolaev based Liman shipyard received the hull of the mega-yacht "Empire" for its completion
  

  
  

• United Shipbuilding Corporation goes off rails
  Unofficially the managers of the shipbuilding industry acknowledge that the participants considerably lag behind with the registration of USC
  

  
  

• Severnaya Verf to invest RUB 13 billion in its upgrade
  After his visit to the shipyard the Chairman of Russian Federation Council Sergey Mironov informed that the company intends to invest 13 billion rubles in the program of modernizing its production capacities
  

  
  

• Russian shipyards start building luxury yachts
  The first sea motor yacht of the class "lux" «Yugoria» was laid down by the shipyard Moryak located in the town of Rostov
  

  
  

• Russian shipbuilding has a foundation for improvement
  Shelf oil and gas projects is the main element of this foundation
  

  
  

• Investors got interested in the shares of the Russian shipyards
  In the conditions of the growing value of the shares of the basic emitters and historical maximum of the Russian Stock Exchange the interest of the investors is switching over to the stocks of the so called 2 and 3 echelons
  

  
  

• DEFENSE UPDATE NEWS IN BRIEF
  The news review is here
  

  
  

• Russian shipbuilding got first help from the state
  Russian government exempted from the import duties the ships which will be registered in the Russian International Ship Register
  

  
  

• Dutch Rensen Shipbuilding ordered 3 dry-cargo ships from Zelenodolsk shipyard
  Construction of the new ships will proceed according to the International convention of shipbuilding rules
  

  
  

• Vyborg shipbuilding plant may curtail platforms construction
  Most likely the shipyard will not build the Shtokman platform for Gazprom completely
  

  
  

• Ukrainian shipyards got financial privileges
  In order to reduce the cost of credits for the shipbuilding enterprises in 2008 200 million UAH it will be allocated from the state budget of the Ukraine
  

  
  

• Zvezdochka completed the repair of the nuclear sub
  "Ryazan" got a prolonged period between repairs
  

  
  

• Is Baltic Shipyard staying?
  Newspaper Kommersant added details to the previously reported rumors that OPK delays closing down the shipyard
  

  
  

• Admiralty Shipyards are negotiating more civil orders
  The talks are held with Portugal, Finland and Croatia