Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard (Nizhny Novgorod) plans to increase the pace of construction to 9 ships in 2011, said Yevgeny Malov, the head of MNP Group, the managing company.
According to the MNP Group, the shipyard expects to build seven 5,530dwt tankers of 19614 project for the "VF Tanker and two new tankers of project 19900 for Sommet Finance.
MNP said the 2011 shipbuilding orderbook has been formed, and it exceeds the shipyard’s output of previous years: earlier, the enterprise could build 7 or 8 ships a year.
Read more about the prospects of renovation of the Russian river vessels fleet on PortNews IAA, in Relevant Topic, September 20, 2010.