Recently, according to the Russian shipyard Krasnoye Sormovo general manager Mikhail Pershin confirmed that located in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Nizhny Novgorod) Krasnoye Sormovo and Okskaya Sudoverf two shipyards are expected to sign 30 bulk carrier construction contract.
According to the official website of, Krasnoye Sormovo was established in 1849. It is a shipyard owned by the United Shipbuilding Corp (USC), Russia's largest shipbuilding group, and one of the oldest shipbuilding companies in Russia. It has built the second and third generation submarines of the Soviet Union. During the 75 years from 1930 to 2005, Krasnoye Sormovo built more than 300 submarines and rescue ships, including 26 nuclear submarines, and modernized more than a dozen nuclear submarines. In the past 20 years, the position of Krasnoye Sormovo in the modern civil shipbuilding market has been very high. It is worth mentioning that in the past three years, the market share of Krasnoye Sormovo in civil ships such as river ships and multi-purpose ships (MPP) has been maintained at about 40%.
Okskaya Sudoverf was established in 1907 and specializes in medium-sized ship construction. In addition, Okskaya Sudoverf for barge and civil ship construction and repair services, and is good at building multi-purpose riverboats and river-sea vessels.
According to the, the bulk carrier involved in this order is a river-sea vessels (river-sea ship) built for Russia's RSD59 project, with a total design length of 140.88 meters, a width of 16.98 meters, a river/sea draft of 3.6/4.5 meters and 8150 deadweight tons (DWT), used to transport general cargo and dry bulk cargo (including grain), bundled and round wood, metal scrap, metal coils, oversized/overweight cargo, coal and Class B dangerous cargo. It is scheduled to be delivered by 2027.
According to Business World, Mikhail Pershin said that shipping companies need modern ships, taking into account the production capacity of Russian domestic shipbuilding enterprises, as well as the Russian domestic fleet of the old degree, Russia last year to develop civil ship development plan.
understood. Russia's civil ship development plan proposes to build 260 civil ships by 2027, including 119 container ships, bulk carriers and tankers, 73 passenger ships (passenger ships) and 27 dredgers (dredgers). The construction of the ship will be financed by the National Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation and is expected to cost 231 billion rubles (about 3 billion US dollars).
Russia's demand for domestic shipowners for civil ships is very forward-looking, and at the same time, it continues to increase support for the construction of civil ships: in July 2022, according to the Russian news agency, Russian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Yevtukhov said that Russian shipyards will receive more than 1000 civil ship orders by 2035, with a total investment of more than 5.5 trillion rubles (nearly 600 billion yuan).
And two months later, Victor Yevtukhov at the Eastern Economic Forum meeting said that due to the expansion of northern sea transport and the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Agriculture's new capacity requirements, by 2035, Russia's civilian new shipbuilding demand will increase to about 1500 ships.
At the end of December 2022, according to the Economic and Commercial Office of the Embassy of the Russian Federation, citing a report by the Russian media Kommersant, Russian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Yevtukhov stated that Russia will allocate 130 billion rubles from the National Welfare Fund. (Approximately 1.85 billion US dollars) to build 250-270 civilian ships, including passenger ships, dredgers, river and sea tankers, fishing boats, crabbing ships and large-tonnage fleets.
Source: Shipping Industry