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2009 March 6   06:44

Putin to chair meeting on civilian shipbuilding

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will chair a  conference  on  civilian shipbuilding during a planned visit to St. Petersburg, a government source said.

"Principal   development   criteria   for   the   Russian  civilian shipbuilding industry are planned to be considered at the conference and a strategy  for its further development is to be worked out," the source told Interfax.

"The  satisfaction  of  national  needs  for  military and civilian shipbuilding,  the  maintenance  of  the positions in the world military shipbuilding  market, and exports of civilian products are to become the key points of this strategy," he said.

Making  various  high-tech  civilian  vessels  such as icebreakers, research   ships,  specialized  vessels  for  the  Emergency  Situations Ministry,  floating  nuclear  power  plants,  platforms for offshore oil fields,  and  sea  and  river  transportation boats might be prospective niches for Russian shipbuilding, the source said.

Russia's shipbuilding also includes a significant military sector - building vessels for the Russian navy and for export, he said.

The  government  is  conducting  permanent  financial  and economic monitoring  of  key  shipbuilding enterprises as an anti-crisis measure, the source said.

"Since  ship construction is a lengthy period, the accessibility of loans from  Russian banks is one of the main problems of the industry in the current situation. The chief measure of state financial support that enterprises  in  the  industry  ask  for  is  partial subsidizing of the interest on loans," he said.

Russia's  state-controlled  shipbuilding  industry  consists of 168 enterprises,  has a total work force of about 160,000, has its principal manufacturing  units located in the northwest, and receives its supplies from more  than  2,000 enterprises. There are also more than 100 private companies involved in building and repairing vessels.

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