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2009 March 31   11:25

The crisis of Ukrainian shipbuilding branch

Ukrainian shipbuilding outlasting the most difficult times for the last decade. Caused a crisis the customers refuse new contracts, the payment for the already built ships is frozen or delayed. As a result, many of domestic factories were forced to halt shipbuilding, to decrease a workweek and execessed the number of employees. 

Since January 679 workers of Shipbuilding factory of 61 communard are on unpaid furlough. The Black sea ship factory works in the mode of part-time employment. A «Liman» declined a workweek from 5 to 4 days, and even such profit enterprise of industry as Wadan Yards Okean (before – Damen Shipyards Okean), was forced to transfer 340 of 2,5 thousand of regular workers on the 4-hour shift-work. 

According to the general manager of Wadan Yards Okean Nicolay Romanchuk, a factory disposes with the order book to 2010. The most of them are already got from a new owner of enterprise, the group of the Wadan Yards AS companies, in which 70% belong to Russian FLS West and 30% Norwegian Aker Yards. 

From all shipyards included in the informal shipbuilding holding «Smart», Black sea ship factory remains in the most difficult situation. In November, ship building was phased out - «because of crisis», there was only ship repair.

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