Russia will be able to develop civilian shipbuilding in the right niche, said PM Vladimir Putin in his interview with journalists following his visit to the Far East region, the government press service reports.
"The fact is that we will achieve the development of our own shipbuilding industry, I repeat, to a certain niche, and this is obvious. At that, at the highest modern technological level ", said Vladimir Putin.
According to him, two large projects have been earlier presented on this visit to Far East, and he has no doubt that they will be implemented.
"This gives us the opportunity to develop our civilian shipbuilding on the advanced level, and it will be, obviously, with access to the promising market for such products. We have had six meeting so far: of possible producers and customers. We had met six times, and finally signed yesterday contracts totaled at $ 5 billion", said Mr. Putin.
As an example, Prime Minister mentioned the order made by OJSC Rosneft placed at Far East Plant "Zvezda" shipbuilder to build a semi-submersible oil platform cost $ 700 million.
In addition to the above mentioned order, there have been several contracts earlier signed. "Caspian Gas" and "Far Eastern Center of shipbuilding and repair" (FECSR) has had a deal on the construction of oil tankers and gas carriers. Two chemical tankers will be built under a contract between OAO EBV-Leasing and FECSR. In addition, FE Center shipbuilder is reportedly to build under contract with Rosmorechflotom a powerful (7 MW) multi-task rescue vessel of capacity at.
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