JSC Yenisei River Shipping Company (ERSC, Krasnoyarsk, Russia) projects to have 50 new ships constructed by 2015, the company’s CEO Alexander Ivanov told the Independent News Agency.
"The upgrade of river shipping company’s fleet turns to be the biggest problem. The Russian river-going ships’ average age ranges from 40 to 70 years, and it’s too much. We have a long-term program: by 2015 we need to build 50 units of the fleet. We expect to spend 170 million rubles just this year for construction of the fleet, next year we plan to do a little more. We have prospects, plans, and understanding. Of course, I would like to build more and, hopefully, so be it ", Alexander Ivanov was quoted as saying.
Each year, Yenisey Shipping Company as a customer places orders for new ships at the Krasnoyarsk Shipyard (part of the ERS holding). Besides, the shipyard started producing shipping containers for MMC Norilsk Nickel, a stockholder of JSC ERS company.
"The upgrade of river shipping company’s fleet turns to be the biggest problem. The Russian river-going ships’ average age ranges from 40 to 70 years, and it’s too much. We have a long-term program: by 2015 we need to build 50 units of the fleet. We expect to spend 170 million rubles just this year for construction of the fleet, next year we plan to do a little more. We have prospects, plans, and understanding. Of course, I would like to build more and, hopefully, so be it ", Alexander Ivanov was quoted as saying.
Each year, Yenisey Shipping Company as a customer places orders for new ships at the Krasnoyarsk Shipyard (part of the ERS holding). Besides, the shipyard started producing shipping containers for MMC Norilsk Nickel, a stockholder of JSC ERS company.