Russian yard eyes expansion plans

Vyborg Shipyard in Russia will start building a new super shipyard that will enable it to build oil tankers and LNG carriers with deadweight of more than 170,000 tonnes making it the only shipyard in the country with this capacity. The company?s plan is to build the new shipyard by 2010 and to start construction on the first vessels in 2011. The Leningrad region government has already provided a site near the port of Primorsk for the shipyard construction. This was made possible through the cooperation between Vyborg Shipyard and Gazprom.