Shipbuilding news for March 2008

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• Russian generals fight against the Defense Minister.He does not mind
  All of a sudden Russian media published several materials regarding the conflict between the top military brass (mainly the General Staff) and the civil Defense Minister
  

  
  

• Former Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov demonstrates good sense of Army humor
  During his visit to Tula based KBP he commented the much praised Pantir air defense system saying that he "had seen this piece of iron"
  

  
  

• The owners of Vyborg Shipyard will build a new supershipyard in 2010
  Investment company Unison Capital claims that it is certain that the owners of Vyborg Shipyard will build a new supershipyard in 2010
  

  
  

• Defense update
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• International Forum «Russian Shipping 2008» will be held in St.Petersburg
  C5 is proud to announce the launch of Russian Shipping Finance and Investment Forum that will focus on the latest insights and developments in the Russian shipping industry
  

  
  

• Norwegians try to build ships with the financial aids of foreign governments
  In the end of February Norwegian «Odfjell» broke the contract with Russian shipyard «Sevmash» (Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region) on delivering several tankers
  

  
  

• Defense update
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• General designer of Tupolev Lev Lanovsky forecasts big prospects for Tu-204
  At the moment several planes are prepared for Russian and foreign customers. Negotiations with Koreans, Syrians and Iranians are underway
  

  
  

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• Defense update
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• Federal state enterprises (FKP, (kazennye)) expect serious reforms shortly
  Final objective is to make them full-fledged players of the market economy
  

  
  

• Norwegian shipping company Odfjell broke the contract with Sevmash
  Norwegian shipping company Odfjell dealing with the transportation of chemicals and mineral oil broke the contract with Sevmash on the construction of chemical tankers
  

  
  

• The process of creation state corporations in the industry considerably lags behind initial plans
  The state plans on the formation of the integrated structures are implementing criminally slowly
  

  
  

• Nothern Shipyard may become the leader in the Russian shipbuilding
  Construction of a new complex on the basis of NS may begin as early as this year and end in 2013
  

  
  

• Russia advances with it fighters
  First experimental Su-35 started flight tests in Zhukovsky. Meanwhile KnAAPO is assembling two aircraft