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The meeting was held upon an instruction issued by the President and attended by Head of the Presidential Directorate for National Maritime Policy Sergei Vakhrukov, Yaroslavl Region Governor Mikhail Yevrayev, and officials from the Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Rosmorrechflot, shipbuilding companies, design bureaus, and research and educational institutions.

The participants noted that measures were being taken to create a new competitive domestic shipbuilding, including through upgrading and retrofitting existing shipbuilding and ship repair yards, improving the production process management quality, and increasing the utilisation ratio of the industry’s main production assets as part of implementing the Strategy for Advancing the Shipbuilding Industry for the period to 2035. The participants emphasised that Russia had everything necessary for steady and lasting development of shipbuilding.

Proposals have been drafted that are aimed at continued equipping of the industry enterprises with high-tech equipment, introducing innovative technology and the latest design methods, and forming a single information space based on standard unified software and hardware solutions.

Measures to promote the shipbuilding industry’s human resource development have been identified. The industry’s need for additional workforce for the period to 2030 exceeds 60,000 employees.

Emphasis was placed on the importance of improving coordination of the work of state bodies of authority, research community, the shipbuilding industry organisations, and other stakeholders.

Special focus was placed on providing research and technical and personnel support for industrial enterprises in the Yaroslavl Region.

On the same day, Nikolai Patrushev visited the shipyard “Vympel” where he familiarised himself with its operations and took part in a ceremony for launching Molniya missile boat. The Presidential Aide noted that the new high-speed boat will serve in the Navy.

In addition, Mr Patrushev discussed the production development prospects with the management of Yaroslavl Shipyard, Nobel Brothers Shipyard, and Rybinsk Shipyard.