Report: Government to order 400 ships from Russian shipyards

MOSCOW, Nov 24 (PRIME) -- The Transport Ministry plans to order 400 ships in 2025–2035 with the main condition being that the Russian shipyards should build them, Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Yevtukhov said in an interview to NTV television channel broadcast on Thursday.

“The Transport Ministry has put up forward the order with the intent to buy 400 ships until 2035. … We have agreed with this proposal with a mandatory condition that they will start ordering the ships from 2025 at the Russian shipyards,” he said.

Head of the Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport Zakhary Dzhioyev said in an interview to RBC newswire that the Russian fleet’s demand for civil ships amounts to 400 vessels, with about half of them being dry cargo carriers and about half of them being tankers. The list also includes 30–35 container carriers with a capacity of around 2,500–3,000 twenty-foot equivalent units, he said.

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