The fate of Amursky and Khabarovsk shipyards remains uncertain, Khabarovsk Gov. Vyacheslav Shport said Friday at the meeting of the Russian Government's Marine Boardin Moscow.
The official told the Board that the shipyards' current backlog of orders dropped to only 12-15% of the yards capacity, with no confirmed state contracts from Defense Ministry.
President of United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Vladimir Shmakov assured the government that in the near future the Corp. will present a plan for H1, 2014 to keep the enterprises busy.
Rosneft VP Andrei Shishkin added that the consortium of investors, which will manage the Zvezda shipbuilding cluster project, is ready to award the enterprises civil shipbuilding orders, but only insofar as they are actually able to execute them.
Marine Board Chairman, Russian Gov't Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin commented that the problems may also be associated with the shoaling of the Amur.