RosMorPort FSUE plans to order two icebreakers to be deployed in the port of Ust-Luga (Leningrad region). Director General of Baltiysky Zavod, Aleksandr Chistov told journalists the company hopes to get this order, RBC reports. The company currently completes the series of two diesel-electric icebreakers Moscow and St. Petersburg ordered by RosMorPort FSUE (the latter has been launched today). Both vessels are to be delivered to the customer in 2008. "We hope the series will be continued," Chistov emphasized. Baltiysky Zavod, JSC is one of the leading enterprises in the Russian shipbuilding industry (member of Industry Shipbuilding Corporation). Currently the Baltiysky Zavod shipyard specializes in construction of icebreakers and ice-classed vessels (with nuclear-powered propulsion, as well as conventionally powered), large commercial vessels for carrying various types of cargo, and naval ships. The company also manufactures a wide range of marine propulsion equipment and machinery for equipping ships built at the shipyard, as well as for supplying other yards. Baltiysky Zavod also manufactures heat exchanges for nuclear power plants and is a major producer of non-ferrous and core-mould castings.
Baltiysky Zavod hopes to get contract for two icebreakers form RosMorPort FSUE
United Industrial Corporation controls 88.2% of the company. In 2007, the company’s revenue totaled RUR 3.5 billion.