ASI urges FAS to step in to settle a business entities dispute
The non-government organization the Agency of Strategic Initiatives for the Promotion of New Projects (Agency for Strategic Initiatives, ASI) has submitted a request to the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia Igor Artemiev to analyze the non-compliance of contractual agreements by Vladivostok-based Vostochnaya Shipyard before Composite Shipbuilding Ltd. to pay for services during the project implementation for the construction of high-speed passenger catamarans ordered for the APEC Summit-2012 to be hosted in Vladivostok in early September 2012.
According to the letter sent to ASI (a copy is available at PortNews) by Sergey Voloshenko, General Director of Composite Shipbuilding Ltd., carrying out the construction of vessels for the Summit and the leasing some working area from Vostochnaya Shipyard. The letter reads "the hostile counteraction of Vostochnaya Shipyard to the implementation of the business activity and compliance with the approved in the contract agreements with a significant indifference demonstrated by regional authorities."
In particular, Composite Shipbuilding reports that Vostochny Shipyard employs regular outages of the power supplied to the yards of Composite Shipbuilding, prohibits supply of equipment and materials to the yard and regularly blocks the passage of workers to the territory. According to Sergey Voloshenko, several appeals submitted by the company to the local police and Prosecutor’s Office of Primorsky Territory were in vain.
The Agency has asked the FAS, if necessary, to undertake the antitrust actions to resolve the situation before the APEC Summit.
