Russia’s proposed maritime centre should coordinate long-term civilian vessel orders with financing and shipyard capacity, First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov said in Moscow on September 29.
The Maritime Collegium approved the centre’s concept and main areas of activity at the meeting.
Manturov’s priorities included linking vessel demand to project economics and available funding, and wider use of standard designs and serial construction where feasible. These, he said, would reduce costs and make demand for equipment more predictable.
He also called for large-block construction, automation and digitalisation when modernising shipyards or developing new capacity.
Future vessel orders should guide domestic production of critical equipment, including engines and control systems, and planning for materials requirements, Manturov said, while emphasizing that plans for new civilian and naval fleets should identify maintenance and repair facilities for vessels’ full service lives.
The Russian Government remarked that the centre should connect existing support mechanisms rather than duplicate them, with clearly defined responsibilities.
Russia’s updated shipbuilding strategy, approved in May 2025, targets raising serially built vessels’ share from 30 per cent to 50 per cent by 2036, and domestic ship-component production to 50 per cent by 2036 and 80 per cent by 2050.
United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) cut steel for its first dry-cargo vessel built on a unified platform at Krasnoye Sormovo on September 28.
USC estimates standardisation may lower build costs by more than 20 per cent and shorten construction time by up to 30 per cent.