05.10.2009
Board of directors of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) approved Far East shipbuilding development concept, informed press centre of Khabarovskiy Krai government.
Vyacheslav Shport, Khabarovsky Krai Governor attended the session of the board held in Moscow under auspices of Russian Vice Premier Igor Sechin. Participants discussed problems of shipbuilding companies and approved Far East shipbuilding development concept. According to that document, four shipbuilding zones are to be established under the aegis of Far East Shipbuilding Center.
Two of them – Amur and Khabarovsk zones, as for the governor, will be based on
Amur Shipyard in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and
Khabarovsk Shipyard in the regional center. In general, they will keep their specialty: the first shipyard is to produce both civil and military vessels including submarines; the second one will continue to build small-displacement vessels of different purpose.
Vyacheslav Shport took favorable view of the concept and remarked that it contains deep analysis of shipbuilding industry status which had not been made for years. In particular, concept implementation phases provide increase of governmental defense order. The first phase has already been connected with federal budget-2010 and provides funding anti-crisis measures, said the head of the region.
The governor reminded that labor productivity and competitiveness in Far East region remain at low level. Vessel building periods are 1.5-2 times longer in Russia than in foreign shipyards and the costs are higher on 20-25 %. For that matter, the shipbuilding development concept provides particular preferences to shipbuilders to make their production competitive in domestic and international markets.
As an example of such preferences he named submission of state guarantees to shipyards, long-term credits and relief from import duties for ship-like equipment which is not produced in Russia.
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