Zvezda shipyard

The Zvezda shipyard is a large shipbuilding and engineering complex in the town of Bolshoy Kamen in the Russian Far East, owned by United Shipbuilding Corporation.

Zvezda shipyard
Joint-stock company
IndustryShipbuilding
Founded1945
Headquarters
Bolshoy Kamen
,
Russia
Websitefes-zvezda.ru

Current work includes ships for Rosneft and Gazprom.

History

At the end of the Cold War, the Zvezda shipyard was used to decommission Soviet nuclear submarines, with funding and support from the US and Canada under the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction initiative.[1]

Following the decommissioning work, there were plans to expand and redevelop the shipyard to construct larger new ships.[2] Work on the latest attempt at expansion began in 2009; the Russian government has criticised delays and threatened to hand control of the project to third parties, perhaps including Rosneft and Gazprom.[3] In the longer term, the shipyard may be opened up to foreign investors as part of a broader plan to make the Russian shipbuilding industry capable of competing with shipbuilders in other countries.[4]

When the expansion is complete, the shipyard would be able to build ships up to 360m and 250,000dwt.[5]

As of 2017, the Zvezda shipyard has orders for only 14 vessels, mostly from Rosneft, one of the owners.[6]

In the middle of 2018, the shipyard's order book amounted to 118 vessels, including orders from Rosneft for 26 vessels, 4 vessels are in the process of construction.[7][8] In September 2018, the first tanker of the Aframax class was laid.[9] Also in September, an agreement was signed with Samsung Heavy Industries on the transfer of competencies in the construction of tankers.

Facilities
  • 400 m horizontal slipway 100 to 150000 ton DWT workplace (or slightly more), two 60 m 300 - 560 ton gantry cranes, one 1200 ton
  • 485 m drydock 158 x 28 x 400, vessel up to 150000 ton DWT or some more, workplace with one or two 1200 - 2000 m gantry crane (goliath) (drydock in construction, 2018 - )
  • 5 - 6 workshops
  • Azipod plant
  • 1 main + 1 large + 2 mid workoshops for the horizontal stapel slipway
  • one floating dock (more if needed), one closed (roof) floating dock project planned

See also

References
  1. "Zvezda Shipyard Finally Gets New Facilities". Open Source IMINT. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
  2. "Russian energy majors could take over shipyard project". The Motorship. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
  3. "United Shipbuilding Corporation to risk to lose Zvezda – a super-shipyard may be given to Rosneft and Gazpromnabk". Oil and Gas, Metals and Mining News. 8 August 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
  4. "Russia on verge of shift to commercial shipbuilding". The Motorship. 16 August 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
  5. "Russian energy majors could take over shipyard project". The Motorship. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
  6. "Всех послали на «Звезду»". Коммерсантъ. 9 August 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  7. "В портфеле заказов ССК «Звезда» 118 судов". PRIMPRESS.RU (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  8. "ССК «Звезда» построит для «Роснефти» танкер усиленного ледового класса дедвейтом 69 000 тонн". www.rosneft.ru. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  9. "Путин дал старт строительству первого мегатанкера на заводе «Звезда»". vz.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-02-24.

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