The policy of the Ministry of Industry and Russia in the field of shipbuilding is unacceptable, Russian President Vladimir Putin told a meeting devoted to the development of civil shipbuilding in Russia.
Vladimir Putin said the main reason why foreign partners opted out from Russian shipyards projects was that the ministry and the government were not quite clear that without investment in Russia those countries would not be awarded orders from Russian companies.
"It's not the customers’ concern, but the task of the government and by the way, of your ministry, to organize the work in such a way as to coordinate the work, both of our customers and of potential foreign partners, with the understanding that they will not have orders, if they do not cooperate with us and not invest in the development of production in Russia”, Putin was quoted as saying, addressing to the Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov. “I think that you are doing it ineffectively, not persistently, that's the whole point!".
The discussion was triggered by a report of interim director of the Far Eastern Centre of Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Vladimir Tsybin, who said that the ambitious project of Zvezda shipbuilding cluster in the Far East remains stalled after a Korean investor pulled out of the project.
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