Russian Naval Shipbuilding Industry: News

ult wrote:Not yet. They plan to expand in 2020, which will allow them to build ships with a length of 100 meters, beam - 26 meters, draft - 6 meters. Which is closer to 20380 dimensions.

Far Eastern plant "Zvezda" was left without military orders

July 9, 2019 at 12:02 Topic: Industry

Part of the workers of the Far Eastern plant "Zvezda" from August to December will be transferred to the incomplete working week. According toRIA Newssuch a decision is dictated by the temporary absence of a state defense order.



The website of the Federation of Trade Unions of the Primorsky Territory states that the majority of shipyard workers will switch to part-time work. “Such measures are caused by the fact that the enterprise is underutilized due to the temporary absence of the state defense order,” the plant’s press service told. 



Plant "Star"

Press Service DSSS


The representative of the factory union claims that "we are talking about hundreds of people." "It was decided to appeal to the deputy Viktor Pinsky and directly to the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu," he said. According to him, the plant’s management is taking measures to resolve the situation. 

The Far Eastern plant Zvezda (Bolshoy Kamen, Primorsky Krai) is the leading shipbuilding complex in the east of Russia, specializing in the repair, refitting and modernization of nuclear submarines. Since 2009, on the basis of the shipyard, a project has been implemented to create a complex for the construction of civilian vessels and oil platforms. The total investment has already exceeded 200 billion rubles. To complete the complex plan by 2024. 

At the end of June DVZ ZvezdaOmsk ", the last repair and modernization.

(...)Which shipyards will be able to build a ship with a displacement of 20 thousand tons?

- It all depends on the state of our shipyards, in their slipway program. Again, this could be the Baltic Shipyard or the Northern Shipyard. The "Northern" should have been modernized, but they did not. The contract with the St. Petersburg metro stroy was broken. They were supposed to create facilities for the construction of large ships, but the contractor failed USC. Severodvinsk ("Sevmash" - ed) is busy, the Crimean enterprises should be watched, maybe they can be reanimated. In the USSR, there were powerful shipyards that built supertankers with a displacement of up to 100 thousand tons. Our destroyer is similar in its dimensions to the Soviet cruiser: only one length is about 180 meters.

The construction of a slipway at the "North shipyard" will be presented for public comment

07/04/2019 14:11
 

Public hearings on the modernization of the plant "Severnaya Verf" in the framework of the first phase of construction will be held on August 12. This reports the press service of the Smolny.

The discussion will deal with the issues of assessing the impact of the construction of the slipway and the technical re-equipment of the enterprise’s capacities on the environment. The event is being held by the Committee on Nature Management, Environmental Protection and Ensuring Ecological Safety in cooperation with USC LLC.

Recall that the shipyard to upgrade its facilities announced a competition in the amount of 6.33 billion rubles in September 2017.

As a result, the tender for the construction of the slipway was won by Metrostroy. However, in 2018 a significant deviation from the agreed schedule was revealed, and at the end of March this year, the contract with Metrostroy was terminated.

On July 10, Rakhmanov told Mil.Press FlotProm that the fundamental parameters of modernization do not change: "Already at the first stage (works - ed.), The Northern Shipyard created opportunities for year-round construction of any ships and vessels up to 250 m in length and with a displacement of up to 75 thousand tons. " He noted that the construction of ships and vessels is organized with increased labor productivity due to high-quality ergonomics of workplaces.


Another industry source of the publication added that the commissioning of a new slipway is planned for the second half of 2020. Initially, the work should have been completed in the first quarter of this year.

Northern shipyard will go on modernization the second time

The plant plans to announce a tender for 4 billion rubles


Northern shipyard, which is part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), may, until the autumn of 2019, announce a tender for the modernization of the plant for 4 billion rubles. After this year the shipyard broke off the contract with Metrostroy OJSC, which failed to cope with the construction of a new slipway, the plant will find a new contractor. At the same time, according to sources “Kommersant” at the Northern shipyard, despite the almost six-month delay in connection with the change of the contractor, the deadlines for the completion of the work are not shifted: the shed will pass in 2020.

At the press conference of the International Navy Salon, held in St. Petersburg, they touched upon the modernization of the Northern shipyard, which should allow the plant to build large-capacity vessels. Earlier, it was planned to complete work on the site in September 2019.

“If it were not for the trouble with Metrostroy, today we would cut the ribbon and drink champagne at the Northern shipyard. Unfortunately, we had to go back to the drawing board. But most importantly, the fundamental parameters do not change: at the Northern shipyard, in the early stages, opportunities should be created for the year-round construction of any ships, ”said Alexey Rakhmanov, head of USC.

Talks on the modernization of the Northern shipyard have been going on since 2015: the possibility of building a dry dock and the purchase of a Goliath bridge crane with a carrying capacity of 1.2 thousand tons were considered, but they were abandoned due to lack of funds. As a result, it was decided at the first stage of modernization to build a boathouse with a slipway and only at the second to build a transfer dock and hull-processing workshop. ¡ November 2017, Metrostroy (owned by St. Petersburg, the city’s metro, as well as Nikolai and Vadim Aleksandrov) won a tender for the construction of a slipway for 6 billion rubles. A Kommersant source close to Smolny reported that in December last year the contract was executed for 2 billion rubles. At the same time, the USC recorded the failure of the term of work, and in February 2019 announced the termination of the contract with the contractor (see “Kommersant” dated 03/21/2019).

In March 2019, Moscow's Domestic Systems and Technologies LLC signed a contract with the Northern Shipyard for design under the Federal Program for Reconstruction and Technical Re-equipment, the company said in a statement.

“They only do project documentation and finish up the small amount that remained unfulfilled within the agreed documentation parameters. As soon as the documentation is completed, we will announce a tender for the execution of the lion’s share of the remaining amount of work. I think that at least 4 billion rubles, ”Mr. Rakhmanov told Kommersant.

According to a source from Kommersant at the Northern Shipyard, a competition is scheduled for next month. At the same time, the terms of modernization are not shifted, they are assured at the factory. However, Kommersant’s sources in the shipbuilding industry doubt that construction can be completed in 2020. The interlocutor of “Kommersant” in Smolny said that in the process of searching for a new contractor, the city authorities consulted with Pilon Mevludi Bliadze, but officially the company did not confirm the interest of the company or the Northern shipyard.

In the annual report of USC it is noted that the project of creating a modern shipbuilding complex at the Northern shipyard is calculated until 2024. Within its framework, it is planned to reconstruct the western pier to create the basis of the head of the slipway with the slipway, to build a slipway, to re-equip the body-processing workshop, to reconstruct energy networks. For 2018, it is emphasized in the report, the dismantling of facilities was completed, a pile slip field was formed, power grids were rendered and concrete works continued. Financing of the modernization program is carried out at the expense of the federal budget, credit and own funds of USC. The timing and cost of work in the Ministry of Industry and Trade did not comment.

Northern shipyard (the first name is Putilovskaya) was founded in 1912. At the end of 2018, the shipyard suffered a loss of 3.2 billion rubles, revenue amounted to 17.7 billion rubles. The plant is engaged in the design and construction of large and medium displacement combat surface ships (class destroyer, frigate, corvette, large landing ship, rocket ship), as well as special purpose ships and naval support ships. The shipyard also managed to collect the largest portfolio of orders for fishing vessels in the North-West: it will build ten freezing trawlers-processors for the Norebo group of companies and four longline vessels for the Wirma RK and Globus LLC. The total value of orders is about 48 billion rubles. In addition, the shipyard is called a possible contractor for the construction of research vessels for the Federal Agency for Fishery.

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Military shipbuilding of Russia. Current state

Author:  Dmitry Boltenkov  

In 2011, it was announced the beginning of a large-scale rearmament of the Russian army and navy. 

It was supposed within 10 years to carry out an almost complete replacement of weapons and equipment still Soviet production with new models. Of great importance was the renewal of the ship. 

In the photo: Amur Shipyard. The descent of the submarine "Komsomolsk-on-Amur" 

In the period 1990–2010, Russia, in fact, lost a whole generation of ships. During this time, for example, a country like the Netherlands managed to build a series of frigates, then sell them almost completely and build a series of others instead. 

In Russia in 1990–2010, it was only possible to complete a number of ships and submarines of the Soviet side and to begin the construction of lead ships of a number of projects. Moreover, these ships, for example, submarines of the project 677 "St. Petersburg", nuclear submarines of the project 955 "Yuri Dolgoruky" and the project 855 "Severodvinsk" were based on the development of the Soviet era. Of course, it can be considered a miracle that Russia in general has managed to maintain shipbuilding capacities and scientific and engineering personnel in the field of military shipbuilding. Although this was primarily due to import orders.

The creation of modern Russian warships started at the beginning of the XXI century. So there were projects of the small artillery ship (MAC) of the project 21630 “Astrakhan”, the corvette of the project 20380 “Stereguschy” and the frigate of the project 22350 “Admiral Gorshkov”. It should be understood that of all types of military equipment, it is the military ship that should be considered the most difficult, since its creation requires a fusion of efforts from both shipbuilders, developers of naval weapons, engines, and representatives of other specialties. The process of working on these projects showed the complexity of resuming the mass construction of warships in an unstable economy and the collapse of production in the 1990s and the breakdown of cooperative ties between the countries of the former USSR. For example, during the construction of the head MAC “Astrakhan” it turned out that the Uzhgorod Mechanical Plant, previously supplied ship furniture, was abroad, and generally ceased to exist. I had to look for new suppliers of ship furniture for warships. And there were a lot of such trifles.

In general, the Navy expected under the “State Armaments Program - 2020” to receive by 2020 eight strategic missile submarines, eight nuclear submarines, eight non-nuclear submarines, two amphibious assault ships, about 15 frigates and 35 corvettes, and also a large number of auxiliary vessels.
The program of emergency reinforcement of the Black Sea Fleet adopted in 2010 through the construction of the frigate of the project 11356 and submarines of the project 6363 (six units of each project), already adopted by the industry, was part of the GVR-2020 marine component. These were Soviet projects, well-proven in exporting. Otherwise, the sea part of the HPV-2020 provided for the construction of ships under new, post-Soviet projects. In general, it was a question of a full-scale replacement of the entire range of warships, submarines and auxiliary vessels of Soviet construction.

Crimean Spring 2014 

The sea part of the HPV-2020 very much depended on imports: in particular, the supply of gas ship turbines from Ukraine, ship ship diesel engines from Germany, the construction in France of two amphibious-helicopter ships-docks of the Vladivostok type, Western countries and more.

Historical parallels are extremely curious: for example, in the process of creating the fleet of the Russian Empire in the 1910s, as well as when building a large fleet of the pre-war USSR, our country was also very much dependent on imports. Another historical parallel can be seen in the fact that after the adoption of large-scale shipbuilding programs large-scale geopolitical events took place, subsequently forcing these programs to correct.

After the events of the Crimean Spring, NATO countries and Ukraine imposed an embargo on military-technical cooperation with Russia . As a result, the Vladivostok-type Vladivostok-type command and control unit for the Russian Navy did not come to Russia, but at least they returned money.

The consequence of the embargo on the supply of engines from Germany and Ukraine was the fact that some ships remained on the stocks, and for others, in particular, small rocket ships and anti-sabotage boats, had to place new orders for diesel engines in China and, accordingly, recycle projects. But most importantly, Russia had to solve the problems of import substitution and begin to engage in the development of various ship propulsion systems. This "motor" problem cost the country a five-year delay in the construction of warships.

In addition, the country's top leadership had to change the priorities of the development of the armed forces. For example, in 2014, there were practically no ground forces as such in the direction of the Russian-Ukrainian border between Moscow and Rostov-on-Don. In 2019, three combined-arms armies operate in this territory.

Another problem that arose before the leadership of Russia was that, following the results of the Crimean Spring, the country acquired not only the territories and population, but also a number of enterprises and industries in Crimea, with all their advantages and quite a lot of flaws.

The Crimea during the Soviet era was known in many respects precisely by the shipbuilding and ship repair enterprises . 

So, the Kerch Zaliv plant has a dry building dock 360 meters long and 60 meters wide. There were only two such docks in the USSR. The second such dock remained in Nikolaev. The Theodosia enterprise “More” was engaged in building on the dynamic principles of maintenance, such as hovercraft and hydrofoil ships. Sevastopol "Sevmorzavod" was in the USSR number one for the construction of floating cranes, as well as the main repair company of the Black Sea Fleet. Over the past 23 years, all this heritage has been almost lost. The Zaliv plant in 2014 did not have any orders at all.



GCC "Gulf" (Kerch). The supply vessel is taken out of the dock.

 

Russia faced the challenge of reviving these enterprises. One of the ways was the transfer of orders for military shipbuilding. For example, “Sea” with the help of “Pella” received an order for small rocket ships of the project 22800. About ten patrol ships, MRCs and auxiliary ships were transferred to the “Gulf” from Zelenodolsk .

The country had to solve the problem of import substitution, and first of all it was necessary to create competencies in the development and manufacture of gas ship turbines and ship diesel installations. By 2019, this task was largely successfully accomplished, and as a result, on April 23, 2019, at Severnaya Verf, two more frigates of Project 22350 were laid down: Admiral Amelko and Admiral Chichagov. And the command of the Black Sea Fleet leaves no hope of accepting the fourth frigate of the project 11356 “Admiral Butakov” in its structure.

Naval shipbuilding 

When considering military shipbuilding programs, it should be borne in mind that their main task is to replace a wide range of warships and auxiliary ships.

Many commentators and critics of the development of today's Russian Navy do not take into account the fact that there are more than one fleet in the country. The Russian Navy has a significant fleet of rescue and search services. Shipping and navigation in the oceans and coastal seas is entirely dependent on the Hydrographic Service. There are no similar structures in the Navy of foreign states. In Russia there is also a significant fleet of the Main Directorate for Deep-Sea Research of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, whose task is to conduct underwater technical works on the seabed.

At the same time, in no country in the world does the fleet have to provide for service in five unrelated theaters of operations. During the construction of its fleet, Russia must take into account that ships that are good in the Caspian or Black Sea will be unsuitable for service in Kamchatka. The same applies to the Coast Guard fleet of the FSB of Russia.

During the years of the USSR, not all types of ships were built on the territory of the Soviet Union , many were built abroad, primarily in Poland and Finland. As a result of the experience of building many types of ships in the Russian Federation there is simply no. Firstly, these are cable vessels, secondly, landing ships, and thirdly, ocean tugs.

It is worth mentioning this historical aspect of the difference between the Russian Navy and the US or British Navy: in our country, tugs are used to pull ships out of their bases, and floating cranes are used to load weapons. The existing ships of this designation have a service life of almost 40 years, and they just need to be replaced (which was done in recent years thanks primarily to the St. Petersburg plants "Pella" and "Almaz" . The US or British Navy performs similar tasks differently, while in Russia it is the most important component of the Navy’s combat readiness.



Plant "Pella". Descent of the ice class tug SB-737 (project 02980)

 

As a result, the number of types of combat ships under construction, submarines and auxiliary vessels is simply amazing. No country in the world, including the United States or China, is building such a wide range of ships and vessels. Some types of ships in the West simply do not build, such as minesweepers or cable vessels. The Russian Navy simply needs cable vessels to build communications networks, especially in the Arctic. The construction of two such units was transferred from Zelenodolsk to Kerch. Building a number of other types of ships, such as icebreaker patrols, in Canada, for example, is just beginning.

Another aspect of the development of the Russian Navy is that it is not just a set of ships. The structure of the Navy also includes the most powerful naval aviation and coastal forces. Responsibility for the defense of certain territories of Russia is primarily the responsibility of the Navy. This is the Kaliningrad region, the Crimea and Kamchatka, where almost all the combat structures are tied precisely to the fleet. And the development of these structures is also the responsibility of the Navy.

It may be recalled that after 2014, a powerful group of coastal and land forces of the fleet was created in the Crimea, which simply did not exist before the “Crimean Spring”. And as part of the Northern Fleet, formations appeared to conduct combat operations in arctic conditions, outposts along the Northern Sea Route, such as the Northern Clover on Kotelny Island. There is simply no such thing in western countries.

The Navy also has to deal with the infrastructure of the basing. And in this direction there are visible successes. So, to ensure the basing of the new strategic submarine cruisers of the Project 955 strategic project in Vilyuchinsk, a mooring zone and a weapons storage area have been created, Akademik Kovalev sea transport weapons, floating cranes and tugs have arrived there.

Military ship repair 

It is clear that it is impossible to replace the entire huge fleet in 10 years. But at the same time, many combat units still have an adequate supply of “Soviet” strength and have proven themselves well - such as the BOD of the 1155 family, submarines of projects 949A, 971 and 877, etc.

In an attempt to increase the quantitative composition, about 10 programs of modernization of the ships of the Soviet era were adopted. In particular: modernization of the atomic cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov"; repair and modernization of the aircraft-carrying cruiser "Admiral Kuznetsov"; modernization of the nuclear submarine cruisers of the project 949A to the project 949AM (at the same time, the Granit cruise missiles are being replaced with new Caliber and Zircon missiles); repair and modernization of the Marshal Ustinov cruiser, the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Chabanenko and a number of others. 
By itself, ship repair with modernization is comparable in complexity to the construction of a new ship. After all, the ships were created quite a long time ago, the technologies by which they were built were already outdated, their internal saturation and equipment were also outdated and no longer produced. Accordingly, it is necessary to develop new equipment.



Nuclear-powered cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov"

 

The history of the repair and modernization of the BOD "Admiral Chabanenko" is characteristic . The ship itself was completed in the mid-1990s due to the refusal to carry out repairs on the BOD project 1155 "Deleted". There were not enough funds to order a set of repair documentation for the Navy. The result was a good ship that ran for 15 years in the seas and oceans. Too active use and led him in 2013 to the wall of the plant SRZ-35. Currently, ship repair, in fact, is not being carried out - due to the fact that repair documentation is not yet ready, moreover, gas turbines have not been repaired. And the option is not excluded that the Navy would prefer to spend the funds allocated for the repair of the Admiral Chabanenko for the construction of a new ship, the combat capabilities of which will be much higher.

At the same time, the well-known problem of Soviet military shipbuilding should be taken into account - there are practically no similar large ships or submarines in the fleet. Externally, the same ships inside are different. Characteristic examples are the family of nuclear submarines of Project 971 or missile cruisers of the 1144 family. Unfortunately, this problem still exists today: the outwardly very similar BDK Ivan Gren and Petr Morgunov differ greatly in their “filling”. The corvettes of project 20380 built by Severnaya Verf and the NEA are also different. Such differences in the internal equipment and equipment of ships make it difficult for them to develop documentation for repair and modernization. In fact, such documentation has to be done for each ship individually.

The cost / efficiency ratio is also of great importance. Thus, it was originally planned to repair five Project 877 submarines from the Northern Fleet at the Zvezdochka factory . In fact, after the medium repairs of Kaluga and Vladikavkaz, the program was stopped. Repair of other boats of this project was also stopped. Instead, the Navy decided to order large batches of submarines of Project 6363 for the Pacific Fleet and Project 677 for him and for the Northern Fleet.

At the same time, other programs are developing more or less successfully: in the near future small rocket ships of project 12341 will begin to return to the fleet, on which the Uranium complex will be installed instead of the Malachite missile system. The lead was the small rocket ship Smerch. The BOD modernization program for project 1155 is also developing (Admiral Shaposhnikov became the leader).

The transformation of the Admiral Nakhimovnuclear-powered missile cruiser into the “super dreadnought of the 21st century” is proceeding progressively . The ship will be simply “packed” with various rocket weapons. Although, of course, instead of putting this cruiser into operation in 2018, the Navy now expects to receive it only in 2021, and the cost of modernization made it necessary to think about other options for its implementation for his “brother” - the cruiser “Peter the Great” .

A look into the future

A characteristic feature of the current program of development of the Navy looks like this: get the lead ship, conduct its comprehensive tests and then decide on the future fate of the project. The successful completion of the tests of the frigate “Admiral Gorshkov” led to the laying on April 23 of two new frigates and to the announcement of plans to build 12 frigates of the project 22350M. At the same time, the construction and testing of the rescue ship “Igor Belousov” made the naval command think about the specific type of continuation of the series. It should be noted that this approach - “we are making the lead ship and seeing what happened” - clearly delays the timeframe for creating the series.



Frigate "Admiral Gorshkov"

 

The main types of weapons of modern Russian ships are the Caliber cruise missiles and the Polyment Redut anti-aircraft missiles. The first complex was successfully created and tested in combat conditions, but the development of the second was strongly delayed and was successfully completed only in 2018. The consequence of this delay was that the frigate Admiral "Admiral Gorshkov" was not accepted into the fleet for six years.

Another feature of the current military shipbuilding is that the country is beginning to move on to building the next generation of ships. 
The first example was the patrol ship of the project 22160, which looks like a platform with the minimum necessary weapons and crew. But the combat capabilities of such a ship can be multiplied by installing additional equipment or equipment made in container form. Containers with Uranus or Caliber missiles can be loaded onto the ship of project 22160, and then he is able to act as a strike ship; modules with a hydroacoustic station and with underwater robots, as well as a torpedo container can be loaded - and it will work as a water area security ship.

The next such ship will be the corvette of the project 20386 “Mercury”, where a significant section, the so-called transformer food, will be allotted for interchangeable loads. As a result, we get the ship - "Swiss universal knife."

In addition to warships, the principle of modularity is supposed to be extended to submarines. There is no doubt that the 5th generation Husky (Laika) nuclear submarine project will use modules with anti-ship and ballistic missiles.

Auxiliary vessels are not forgotten: a project of a multi-functional platform is being developed, which will be able to act as a tanker, hospital ship, floating workshop, etc.

Such new technologies can be considered not even one step, but perhaps two steps forward compared with the pace of development of foreign fleets. 
It should also not be forgotten that a wide range of unmanned aerial vehicles and underwater uninhabited vehicles are currently being developed for the Russian Navy. In particular, in 2018, the creation of the Poseidon megahorpeda with a nuclear warhead and a nuclear propulsion system was announced. This torpedo can be called the “Doomsday weapon”. And it is difficult to compare any other fleet with the Russian Navy in the implementation of UAVs on surface ships.

Results and prospects

Despite all the problems listed above, the program of military shipbuilding in Russia is developing very dynamically. Still, four large ships on the same day, as happened on April 23, 2019, were not laid in the USSR and Russia for a very long time. Russia was able to restore its competence in the construction of such complex and complex objects as rescue ships or reconnaissance ships.

Currently, a significant number of warships and auxiliary ships are under construction. "Northern shipyard" builds five frigates, five corvettes and two auxiliary vessels (which actually is at the level of the Soviet era). Sevmash and Admiralty Shipyardsare building 21 submarines.

Yes, the country has "lost" a whole generation of ships, but today it is building those ships, for which the West is still preparing. First of all, we are talking about a nuclear missile sword - the 4th generation missile submarines. The United States and England are still sketching future ships for the replacement of existing ones, and Russia is already in reality building Project 955A cruisers.

But do not forget about the main thing that is needed for military shipbuilding - this is money. All at once finance is not enough, and you have to postpone some projects for the future. For example, the surrender of patrol icebreakers of the project 22350 "Ivan Papanin" and "Nikolay Zubov" is shifted by four years and will occur in the years 2023-2024.

According to the Supreme Commander of the President of Russia, the equipment of the Navy with modern weapons and armaments reaches 60%. The most modern association is the Caspian Flotilla (90%). The Black Sea Fleet was thoroughly renovated: it turned from a “ship museum” into a completely modern one. The Baltic Fleet has also been substantially updated. The replacement of large ships and nuclear submarines in the Northern Fleet began. For the first time since 1991, the Pacific Fleet received two fairly large warships.

The peculiarity of the development of the Russian Navy is that, as a rule, almost all the top leaders of our country understand the need to improve the fleet to solve geopolitical tasks. The programs of military shipbuilding that exist today are not an exception and are under the scrutiny of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The modernization of the Amur and Khabarovsk shipyards will be included in the state defense development program



The Khabarovsk authorities are proposing to add investment projects for the modernization of the Amur and Khabarovsk shipyards to the current state program for the development of the military-industrial complex. It is reportedTASS with reference to the Minister of Industry of the region Sergey Denisenko.


"To continue further reconstruction and development of shipbuilding industries, the regional government, in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia and the United Shipbuilding Corporation, are working to include promising investment projects of the Amur and Khabarovsk shipyards in the state program for the development of the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation until 2027, formed by the Russian government," - the official noted. 


The construction of the shipyard in Komsomolsk-on-Amur is morally obsolete and has a high percentage of depreciation, representatives of the region’s authorities explain. Restoration of hydraulic structures, devices for launching and withdrawing ships and vessels is required; it is necessary to create a new transport dock, to modernize the delivery base in Vladivostok. Funding is pre-confirmed. 

At the plant in Khabarovsk plan to upgrade the launching devices. 

Discussion of the development of shipbuilding enterprises is included in the agenda of the Eastern Economic Forum, which will be held in Vladivostok from September 4 to 6.

New slipway

As explained by the Pella press service, the expansion program will be implemented in the Kolpinsky district of St. Petersburg. As part of the modernization, the shipyard will build a second slipway (a structure for building a ship and launching it), thanks to which Pella will be able to build ships up to 110 meters long and occupy new niches in civil shipbuilding. 

As reported by the branch "35 shipyard" (Murmansk, Russia), JSC "Center of ship repair "Asterisk", 22 November 2019 was held working visit of a group of high-ranking officials of the Ministry of industry and trade of the Russian Federation headed by Minister Denis Manturov to the branch "35 shipyard", JSC "cs "Zvezdochka". The event was attended by the Governor of the Murmansk region Andrey Chibis, Northern fleet commander Alexander Moiseyev and President of JSC "United shipbuilding Corporation" (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov.

During the visit a meeting was held, during which was discussed the reports on the implementation of the work of the graphic reconstruction of the dry dock. Manturov visited the production facilities of "35 ship-repair factory" and TAVKR "Admiral Kuznetsov".

July 2019 is actively preparing for the main work on the reconstruction of the dry dock. Work continues on the dismantling of piers and magdalou jumper, manufacture and dive roboshutdown.


From the bmpd recall that in July 2019 JSC "Center of ship repair "Zvezdochka", a part of JSC "United shipbuilding Corporation" (USC), signed a contract worth about 20 billion rubles from the St. Petersburg company "Investment. Engineering. Construction" (I. I. S.) for the refurbishment of the dry dock of the 35th ship-repair factory (SRZ) in Murmansk. Work is scheduled for completion within 2020. Modernization is essential for docking the only one in the Russian Navy heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Admiral Kuznetsov", and including to complete the repair of this ship.

Modernization of the dry dock of the 35th shipyard, under the project, approved in 2016, is in the restructuring of two adjacent dry docks plant (one with a length of 187 m and a width at the top 28 m, and the other with a length of 236 m and a width on top of the 30,8 m, both the Doc have a width at the bottom at 22 m) in one big Doc by demolishing the partition between them. Also works on modernization of all structures hydraulic structures — walls, plate stacker, dock equipment and other things. According to the results of modernization will be the largest in Russia dry dock to receive large vessels and ships, which will have a length of 335 m and a width at the bottom 60 m and in the top 70 m.

it is Worth noting that, according to the message of the Agency TASS in the course of the said visit on 22 November to Murmansk Russian Minister of industry and trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov said that: "...Today finalized the decision with OSC, Murmansk region for the consolidation of three companies ("seal", 35-th Ship repair plant and the 10th shipyard — note by TASS) to establish on the basis of these enterprises the Arctic center of shipbuilding and ship repair". According to the Minister, this will enable you to consolidate resources, optimize costs, improve manageability, and to concentrate resources in these enterprises.

Dock production of the branch "35 SRH"

The branch "35 shipyard" JSC "CA "Asterisk" offers dock repair of ships and special boats organisations serving the marine component of the Arctic fields, with a displacement of up to 10 000 tons with the implementation of works on repair of housings, steering gear, shafting, propellers, fin stabilizers, steering systems, outboard fittings and cathodic protection of vessels.

The company has available two cameras dry dock:

Northern chamber L = 179м, B = 22m, H = 14m;

South camera L = 225m, B = 22m, H = 14m.

Russia Develops Container-Based Robot Systems for Ship Repairs

Russian Ministry of Industry & Trade plans 2-3 times improvement of labor effectiveness during port repairs of propeller-rudder system elements and coating operations thanks to employment of robots. The ministry placed the order for R&D project codenamed Accessibility; as a result, Russian shipbuilders will obtain the mobile container-based systems with laser equipment.

"Using the versatile equipment and robotized systems will reduce downtime and repair costs for marine hardware and infrastructure", says technical specification for R&D project. Among core objectives are "damage control and safe operation of marine facilities".

The system, which prototype is to emerge by the end of 2020, will comprise two marine containers: technological and laboratory/transport ones. They will contain equipment for local recovery of anticorrosion coatings, laser cladding of bronze on bearings, life extension of propulsive screws by cladding, anti-corrosion protection of rudder, repair of anchor system barrels, recovery of crankshafts and repair of rudder heads jacket.

"An important reference for the project is the results of Russian and foreign researches in the area of recovery and repairs of marine engines and infrastructure facilities in sea conditions, system studies of maritime technologies and market developments. As it turned out, major scope of repair and maintenance of marine hardware and infrastructure is performed with the use of obsolete, inefficient, time/energy consuming technologies (painting, galvanic coating, electrode buildup welding, etc.)", says the document approved by Sergey Mamonov, deputy director of shipbuilding department at the Ministry of Industry & Trade.

Through installation of repair containers in the ports, the ministry wants to reduce idleness of ships by 20-30% and increase overhaul effectiveness by 2-3 times.

Although there were no any requirements claimed regarding import substitution for the future container-based system, most of high-end technologies needed for the project have been already developed by Russian industry. "A manipulator, both six-axis articulated (similar to Kuka) and linear one, can be fully produced in Russia, excluding servo drives, servomotors and certain electronics. The mechanisms of the size we need are not produced in Russia", Artem Barakhtin, director of the company manufacturing industrial robots Arkodim told Mil.Press Today. The expert mentioned about recently emerged Russian solutions on laser-type buildup welding.

The Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Technology Center has a turnkey solution on buildup welding of wear resistant coatings on marine mechanisms. At the IMDS-2017, the St. Petersburg company presented the robotized system Finist-S based on Russian-made laser and Fanuc manipulator. As a demonstration, the engineers showed buildup welding of the high-strength material on a marine engine valve. According to the company, this will extend the component’s service life by 3-4 times.

The completion of the construction of a new boathouse at the Severnaya Verf shipyard was moved to 2021

The construction of a new boathouse on the territory of the Severnaya Verf shipyard, intended for the production of ships and vessels with a large displacement, is likely to be completed only in the first half of 2021. This was announced on Monday, December 9, by the president of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, Alexei Rakhmanov, at a press conference on the results of the operation of USC enterprises in 2019.


As Mil.Press FlotProm correspondent reports from the scene, Alexei Rakhmanov pointed out that the documentation for the modernization of the Severnaya Verf shipyard had to be redone almost entirely. “Now these documents are being examined,” added the head of USC.

According to him, in March 2020 it is planned to choose a contractor who will work on the basis of competitive procedures.

"Perhaps the modernization budget will grow by 1 billion rubles," said Alexei Rakhmanov.

Recall that the new shipbuilding complex on the territory of the Severnaya Verf was planned to be commissioned in 2020. However, in April this year, Alexei Rakhmanov admitted that the contractor - the St. Petersburg "Metrostroy" - could not cope with the work, the contract with him was terminated .

However, back in July, the head of USC announced Mil.Press FlotPromthat the fundamental parameters of modernization do not change: "Already at the first stage (works - ed.) at the Severnaya Verf shipyard, opportunities will be created for the year-round construction of any ships and vessels up to 250 meters long and with a displacement of up to 75 thousand tons."



Severnaya Verf Shipyard and Metrostroy signed a contract for the construction of a new slipway and boathouse at the end of December 2017. The two-span boathouse will be equipped with bridge cranes with a lifting capacity of 350 tons and modern transmission equipment based on self-propelled ship trains. The new complex will allow the construction of large vessels and ships with a displacement of up to 25 thousand tons. The dimensions of the two-span boathouse are 250 × 140 × 75 meters. At the second stage, it is planned to modernize the case-processing and assembly-welding production of the plant.

The commissioning of the facility was planned for 2019.

In December 2018, the St. Petersburg government recognized that the construction of a new boathouse was behind schedule . In March 2019, the completion of the facility moved to 2020.

Krasnoe Sormovo plant is ready to work again on the military

December 9, 2019 at 16:47 Theme: Industry

The Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard is ready to return to military orders, subject to availability. This was announced on Monday, December 9, by Mil.Press FlotProm, Director General of the plant Mikhail Pershin, during a press conference on the results of the work of the enterprises of the United Shipbuilding Corporation in 2019.


We retained competencies, for example, on the submarines of Project 636 Varshavyanka,” he said. “And the staff also remained. Of course, not in the same quantity as it was at one time. But if we have the appropriate order, we can prepare for the year work on the construction of diesel-electric submarines. "

Mikhail Pershin headed the Krasnoye Sormovo plant in January 2018. Prior to that, he worked at the enterprise since 2001.

Krasnoe Sormovo is one of the oldest Russian shipyards, founded in 1849. In the Soviet period, the company built and modernized more than three hundred submarines and rescue vehicles, 25 of them nuclear. Today, the plant is building commercial fleet vessels that meet the requirements of international conventions on reliability and safety.

Dmitry Zhavoronkov, Eugene Lurie