OSK completes setting up of Southern Center of shipbuilding and ship repair
OJSC United Shipbuilding Corporation has completed setting up of the Southern Center of shipbuilding and ship repair – the final documents were signed in Astrakhan region on January 23, 2013, OSK press center reports.
All the documents were properly signed, registered and officially filed to the tax inspectorate of the region’s Nariman district.
The official ceremony of the Southern Center setting-up to be attended by the Astrakhan region Governor Aleksandr Zhilmin and OSK President Andrei Dyachkov is scheduled for February 4.
The Southern Center comprises Novorossiysk, Kriushino and Tuapse shipbuilding and ship repair yards, Astrakhan shipyard named after Karl Marks and Lotos Shipyard. Earlier Western Center of Shipbuilding, Northern Center of Shipbuilding and Ship Repair and Far East Center of Shipbuilding and Ship Repair were set up and handed over to OSK under the order of the RF President.
United Shipbuilding Corporation (OSK OJSC) is the largest shipbuilding company in Russia. It was set up in 2007 with 100% federal ownership. The holding comprises 60 companies and organizations (major shipbuilding and shiprepairing companies as well as leading design bureaus). Currently, OSK consolidates about 80% of the domestic shipbuilding complex. The Russian market is the main focus of the state corporation though it also exports its products to 20 countries worldwide.
