United Industrial Corporation (OPK) has developed a project for construction of a shipyard to build vessels with up to 300,000 tonnes in displacement. According to IA REGNUM, the project of a world class shipyard has been presented today at the 8th International Conference and Exhibition for Oil and Gas Resources Development of the Russian Arctic and CIS Continental Shelf RAO/CIS Offshore. Such vessels are to be deployed for development of Arctic shelf. The project’s co-investor is Vneshtorgbank.
OPK’s shipbuilding assets comprise shipbuilding plant Severnaya Verf, Baltiysky Zavod and Central Design Bureau Iceberg. According to the conception of OPK’s shipbuilding assets restructuring, the facilities of Baltiysky Zavod are to be transferred to Severnaya Verf, which is to serve as a base for a compact yard.