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travel to Severodvinsk, as well as several projects have
been implemented abroad. The list of customers in- Судоподъемные мощности «Поморской
cludes the largest shipyards in the Arkhangelsk re-
gion, including Zvyozdochka and Sevmash. Eltok’s судоверфи» позволяют производить
specialists carried out electrical work on the repair of слипование судов длиной до 115 метров,
Russia’s oldest paddle steamer Gogol. Each year Eltok шириной до 20 метров и с доковым весом до
repairs electrical, hydraulic and automation equip-
ment on the icebreakers Dikson, Kapitan Chadaev, 3 тысяч тонн
Kapitan Evdokimov and Kapitan Kosolapov. The Pomorskaya Shipyard’s ship-raising
Volna-Service Group performs a full range of facilities are capable of building ships of up to
work in ship repair, maintenance, modernisation and
disposal of ships. The company carries out hull clean- 115 meters length, up to 20 meters breadth and
ing, painting and repair, repairs and maintenance of up to 3 thousand tons of dock weight.
main and auxiliary diesels, machinery, ship systems,
electrical equipment and automation, conducts piping
and rigging work, and maintains firefighting systems.
Volna-Service is one of the few companies in the re- dry docks or on the slipways of shipyards. Hull air-
gion with all the necessary licences to work under less painting technology is used which significantly
military contracts. Recent contracts include repairs improves coating quality and speed of coating appli-
to the ships of the Arkhangelsk and Murmansk coast- cation and reduces material consumption. The cor-
guard divisions. Tough the civilian line of business is rosion protection process is checked internally and
no less important. For several years, Volna-Service externally by Prometey-trained inspectors with a full
has been servicing Sevmash’s auxiliary fleet and re- set of measuring and control devices.
pairing icebreakers for Rosmorport. The company’s SPASI company provides services of comprehen-
production facilities are located in close proximity sive inspection and maintenance of rescue equipment
to the Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet’s maintenance base, and systems (inflatable rafts, lifeboats, wetsuits, waist-
where Volna-Service leases a dock and berths. The coats, buyo rings) and fire-fighting equipment (fire
company has also concluded a lease agreement with extinguishers, fire hoses, breathing apparatus, fire de-
Arkhangelsk Fleet Repair and Maintenance Base. tection stations, fixed fire-fighting systems) on ships
LKM carries out contract work for the ship paint- of the sea and river fleet. The key clients of the com-
ing. The company also offers dry abrasive and water- pany are Sevmash, Zvyozdochka shipbuilding cen-
jet cleaning services, as well as hull thermal abrasive tre, Northern Shipping Company, Hydrographic En-
cleaning. Work is carried out around the clock at any terprise, Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet, and Arkhangelsk
time of the year. In winter, the company uses frost- River Port. The company is authorised by major Rus-
resistant primers and enamels, which allow paint- sian rescue and fire-fighting equipment manufactur-
ing at temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees. The ers, as well as by foreign manufacturers. The company
company owns several sets of special equipment, en- plans to expand the list of approvals from manufac-
abling work to be carried out in different areas in sev- turers in order to inspect and supply the entire range
eral shifts. Underwater hull painting is carried out in of salvage and rescue equipment.

Evgeny Penyevskoy, on various conditions, which the customer can use as a
General Director of Pomorskaya Shipyard: tool to force the contractor to accept unjustified custom-
er claims. The Federal Antimonopoly Service should pay
Pomorskaya Shipyard provides ship repair, mod- more attention to this and inspect such contracts.
ernization, ship recycling services and carries out As for the ship-repair enterprises themselves, I
field works at the berths in the port of Arkhangelsk. think it is difficult for them to develop without state
The company was founded in 1974, re-launched in support, especially in the regions equated to the Far
2008 after it was almost cut up for scrap. At present, North. Most banks are not interested in crediting pro-
it is a full-fledged ship repair enterpise with a quay duction, don’t consider production assets as collateral
line, a slipway of ten ship-lifts, and a complex of pro- and don’t give credits against them. The tax and ad-
duction workshops and equipment. ministrative burden on business only increases every
Today the ship repair industry is facing a number year, despite counter-propaganda to the contrary. I
of challenges. Transport assets are being consolidated think that the real support from the government to
through acquisitions and mergers. Shipyards can ef- the industry would be reduction of the tax burden,
fectively operate in groups with ship-owning compa- e. g. through significant reduction of social payments
nies or in structures such as USC. Small ship owners and cancellation of income tax.
are withdrawing from the market, while large com- We are also facing difficulties in recruiting quali-
panies are repairing fleets either abroad, at their own fied staff. Local level of qualification does not allow
yards or at large ship repair facilities. to repair modern expensive fleet, and the availability
Excessive administration in the transport indus- of staff is a derivative of the ability to grow, maintain
try, such as the federal law ‘On Transport Safety’, and pay for their work, and pay for expensive fleet, it’s
switches shipowners to unproductive labour, forms a vicious circle. There are shipbuilding flagship enter-
an additional level of administration and tax burden. prises nearby in Severodvinsk, where the workforce
I would refer these costs to ‘indirect taxes’, which are outflow takes place and the wage level in the region’s
taken out of the pockets of, among others, shipown- ship repair industry is formed. This level affects the
ers, because the shipowner saves first and foremost labor market in Arkhangelsk and increases the cost SOZVEZDYE #36
on ship repair. The almost four-fold increase in the of ship repair, which makes it less profitable for ship-
cadastral value of land plots in 2020 has an addition- owners in Arkhanglesk than in other regions.
al negative effect, as ship-repair enterprises occupy The important necessity is to train qualified per-
large areas, but this topic is not discussed in the press. sonnel in the direction of ship repair and shipbuild- развитие
The vicious practice of recent years has been to lend ing on the basis of educational institutions of the development
money to state-owned enterprises and large vertically region and ship-repair enterprises. The absence of ef-
integrated holdings at the expense of small businesses. fective state measures in this direction will not allow
Customers do this without regard to antimonopoly leg- to grow specialists of a new formation and will con-
islation in procurement procedures, which specify long serve the use of technologies of the middle of the 20th
payment deferrals, the dependence of contract payment century in ship repair. 37