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The Russian United Shipbuilding Corporation acquires the control of the ship yard Vyborg Shipyard
Undersigned a contract for the construction of two ships icebreaker
February 24, 2012
The navalmeccanico group public Russian United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) has acquired a participation of control of the ship yard Vyborg Shipyard, that it is situated to Vyborg, on the Gulf of Finland, and appoints to a job some 1.500 people.
Yesterday the USC president, Roman Trotsenko, and the general manager of Vyborg Shipyard, Valeriy G. Levchenko, a contract has undersigned in order to construct in the Baltic yard two ships icebreaker of the value of about eight billions of rubles (203 million euros), with delivery in May and October of 2005. The ships will be long 116 meters, wide 26,5 meters and will be able to cleave the ice until a thickness of 1,5 meters.
The two companies have explained that the contract will allow with the yard of Vyborg to resolve own financial problems and will assure to the plant a workload for the years to come. Recently the economic difficulties of Vyborg Shipyard were agravated, with an increasing indebtedness and the deficiency of orders of a consisting value, and the yard had had to leave at home great part of own attache's. To the action of the signature of the contract note is returned the acquisition of the quota majority of Vyborg Shipyard by United Shipbuilding Corporation.
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The navalmeccanico group public Russian United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) has acquired a participation of control of the ship yard Vyborg Shipyard, that it is situated to Vyborg, on the Gulf of Finland, and appoints to a job some 1.500 people.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
