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2015 May 13   10:23

Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard set to build up its annual output 2.9 times by 2020

Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard OJSC is set to build up its annual output 2.9 times by 2020 through technical upgrading and comprehensive modernization, the company’s press center says.

This work is in line with the blueprint for the long-term development of USC production facilities up to 2030.

The company expects the following effect of the measures: increase of labour efficiency - 1.5 times, increase of capital-labor ratio - 3 times, cost reduction – 13% per one ruble of output, cost efficiency of production – 14.7%). 

“Today we can deliver 2-3 ships per year but we will be able to double the output from 2018 after the modernization”, says Vladimir Seredokho, Director General of Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard.

OJSC Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard, a part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, was created in 1912. The shipyard has built over 500 warships and vessels of 43 designs for the Russian Navy and foreign customers. The shipyard is building missile boats, trawlers, passenger and work vessels for various purposes and is about to start the large-scale construction of mine warships of the new generation for the Russian Navy and foreign countries.

Today, the shipyard is the leader of composite shipbuilding in Russia and the only plant in the country to build warships and civil vessels of 4 types of materials: composite materials, shipbuilding steel, nonmagnetic steel, aluminum and fiberglass. The shipyard has mastered the technology of building hulls of composite materials through vacuum infusion method.