To continue soft-term financing of United Shipbuilding Corporation’s leasing programmes, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has found a way of allocating additional RUB 2.5 bln of budget resources, USC President Aleksey Rakhmanov told at the meeting dedicated to the development of domestic shipbuilding. According to him, this amount will be allocated before the end of 2017 and can be used for construction of passenger and cargo ships at the USC shipyards and other Russian shipyards.