Rosrybolovstvo looks into building a series of three RVs as from 2020
The Federal Agency for Fishery (Rosrybolovstvo) plans to place orders for construction of a series of three research vessels (RV) beginning from 2020, an official of the agency said Wednesday.
The head of Rosrybolovstvo Ilya Shestakov told journalists at a briefing in Moscow that by the end of this year the agency plans to have design documentation at hand, and until the end of 2019 to select the shipyards that will be able to execute the contract.
Earlier, Poetr Savchuk, Rosrybolovstvo deputy head has said that RVs will be deployed for research expeditions with participation of various interested scientific organizations to provide interdisciplinary survey of the global oceans.