The contract for the construction of a dry dock at the 35th shipyard in Murmansk with the company AO “Investments. Engineering. Building” (I.I.S.) terminated. This was stated by the head of the USC Alexei Rakhmanov.
According to Rakhmanov, USC terminated the contract with JSC “I.I.S.” dry dock construction contract, required for docking TAVKR “Admiral Kuznetsov”. Reason for termination – unsatisfactory pace of construction. As previously reported, work is delayed, commissioning of the dock moved from 2020 year 2021.
but, emphasized the head of USC, for deadlines “Admiral Kuznetsov” it will not affect, as soon work will continue with another contractor. At the same time, the previous contractor will have to report for everything 900 million. advance payment, received from USC under the contract.
Agreement with AO “I.I.S.” was terminated on the eve. We are now discussing the choice of a new contractor. There are a choice of three large Russian companies, owned by responsible Russian businessmen. Each of these potential contractors has agreed on the need to start docking the ship. – summer 2021 year in order, to be in time to transfer it to the customer in 2022 year
– declared Rakhmanov.
Recall, that the contract for the modernization of the dry dock at the 35th shipyard for docking “Admiral Kuznetsov” was concluded in July 2019 years after the flooding of the floating dock PD-50. The modernization itself consists in the reconstruction of two adjacent dry docks of the plant (one length 187 m and width on top 28 m, and another length 236 m and width on top 30,8 m, both docks have a bottom width of 22 m) into one big dock by demolishing the partitions between them. Following the results of modernization, the largest dry dock in Russia will be created for the reception of large vessels and ships, which will have a length 335 m and width at the bottom 60 m and up 70 m.
Complete modernization of the dry dock with the renewal of all hydraulic structures - walls, slipway plate, dock equipment and other, – planned to be completed within 2020 of the year.
