Sredne-Nevskiy Shipyard (SNSY) is going to complete the second phase of production modernization by 2017. As shipyard’s technical manager Aleksey Pishchugin told journalists, there is a plan to build a blank production shop of 7,000 m2 which is to increase the entire area of blank production shops to 14,000 m2, and to upgrade the launching gear, IAA PortNews reporter says.

This will let the shipyard build vessels with length of up to 110 m, breadth of 16 m and launching weight of 2,500 tonnes.

As of today, the shipyard can build vessels with length of up to 85 m, breadth of 14 m and launching weight of 850 tonnes.

As of today, the company is building 6 push-towboats, two minesweepers and a passenger catamaran of composite materials. After 2017, the shipyard will be able to build every year two base type minesweepers of project 12700, two harbor type minesweepers of project 10750Э, one corvette OVR, two superstructures for corvette of project 20385, three passenger catamarans, six tug boats and one passenger vessel with a superstructure of composite materials.

Sredne-Nevskiy Shipyard (Saint-Petersburg) was founded in 1912. It has already built over 500 ships and vessels to 43 different projects for RF Navy and foreign customers. Currently, the shipyard builds missile boats, minesweepers, passenger and work vessels of different purposes and is getting ready for a large-scale construction of the new generation mine countermeasures ships for RF Navy and foreign customers.