United Shipbuilding Corporation wants to start designing new shipyard in Russia's Far East at end of 2025/start of 2026

ST. PETERSBURG. Sept 23 (Interfax) - United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) plans to begin designing a new shipyard in the Far East in the near future, the head of USC Andrei Puchkov said.

"The second point of our program is the implementation of the Russian president's decisions on constructing a new shipyard in the Far East. We are currently consolidating the land plots there, and at the end of this year or the beginning of the next one, we will start survey and design work, we will start the design," Puchkov said during the plenary session of the 18th Neva international exhibition and conference taking place in St. Petersburg.

The new shipyard in the Far East, together with the Severnaya Verf, which is awaiting large-scale modernization, will become the framework from which the reform of the shipbuilding industry will begin, Puchkov said.

"What we are doing now will lay the foundation for the appearance of the industry for 50-60 years," he said.

USC's new Far Eastern shipyard will be designed for constructing ships for the Russian merchant fleet. The production capacities of the new site will allow for the construction of bulk carriers, tankers with a deadweight of up to 80,000 tonnes, lengths up to 270 m and widths up to 38 m; container ships with a capacity of up to 6,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), lengths up to 300 m and widths up to 46 m, and gas carriers of up to 170,000 cubic meters, lengths up to 305 m and widths up to 50 m, USC said.

As reported, it is planned that the new shipyard will be located in Promezhutochnaya Bay in Ussuri Bay. Investment in its construction is estimated at 600 billion rubles.