United Shipbuilding Corporation USC
Russia
North-West Federal District of the Russian Federation
St. Petersburg
191119, st. Marata, 90
Top managers:
Markelov Vitaly Anatolyevich
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Fedorov Valery Petrovich
Kamenskikh Ivan Mikhaylovich
Korolev Vladimir Ivanovich
Petrov Ilya Sergeevich
Pospelov Vladimir Yakovlevich
Tonkovidov Igor Vasilyevich
The United Shipbuilding Corporation is 80% of all shipbuilding projects in Russia. USC brings together the best shipbuilding, ship repair enterprises and design bureaus.
USC's strategic line is aimed at developing industry niches with high profitability.
In civil shipbuilding - drilling and production platforms, offshore equipment, specialized ice-class vessels for the development of the Arctic, vessels for work on inland waterways.
In military shipbuilding - meeting the needs of the Russian Navy, design and construction of the fleet of the XXI century. A significant share of USC military products are exported.
USC is an open joint stock company with 100 percent state capital. Depending on the scale and significance of the order for the country's economy, the state is ready to consider the possibility of co-financing contracts and credit rates.
Performance indicators
2023: Revenue growth up to 400 billion rubles
The revenue of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) in 2023 increased to 400 billion rubles from 350 billion rubles in 2022. Its general director Andrei Puchkov spoke about the tangible increase in the holding's turnover at a meeting of the Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy on January 23, 2024.
As Kommersant writes with reference to Puchkov's data, in 2023, civilian products took 17% of USC sales. USC plans to submit a more detailed report on the company's financial results after the completion of the financial audit in the first quarter of 2024, the newspaper notes.
According to the general director of USC, in the period from 2024 to 2035, the Russian fleet will need almost 2.3 thousand new ships. He also said that the consolidated order plan for the named period is 780 vessels. In 2023, USC transferred 25 to civilian customers. That was a record high. For 2024, the corporation plans to increase the number of such ships to 36.
According to USC estimates, the need of Russian shipowners for new civil ships in the period until 2035 is 589 units, the cost of their construction is 1.36 trillion rubles. At the same time, compared to an earlier assessment of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, plans have decreased. In April 2023, Boris Kabakov, at that time the director of the department of the shipbuilding industry and marine equipment of the ministry, claimed that in accordance with the plan, 985 ships were supposed to be built in the same period, and even before that it was about 1101 units.
USC offers the following volumes of construction: 161 bulk carriers, 103 passenger vessels, 55 container ships, 42 crab ships, 40 tankers, 30 trawlers and rescue vessels each, 27 dredgers, 22 research vessels, 20 barges, 10 seiners and 5 icebreakers. It is proposed to build less than 10 units of other types of ships
In monetary terms, most of the funds will be spent on bulk carriers (329.3 billion rubles), emergency rescue (287.6 billion rubles) and research vessels (155.5 billion rubles). Icebreakers will cost another 143 billion rubles.[1]
History
2024
Approval of the digitalization strategy "Shipbuilding 4.0"
On November 29, 2024, it became known that the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) approved a digitalization strategy called Shipbuilding 4.0. This concept is aimed at large-scale robotization, the introduction of additive technologies and the digitalization of production in the shipbuilding sector. The official confirmation was made at a meeting with the participation of Assistant to the President of Russia Nikolai Patrushev, who heads the Maritime College.
According to TASS, Nikolai Patrushev, during a meeting with the chairman of the board of directors of USC Andrei Kostin and general director Andrei Puchkov, discussed key areas of the strategy. The main focus was on the tasks of modernizing production facilities and integrating digital technologies, which should increase the efficiency of the shipbuilding complex enterprises and ensure the technological independence of the industry.
The concept of "Shipbuilding 4.0" involves the transition to large-block construction using robotic systems and 3D printing. The production facilities of the enterprises will be equipped with modern equipment, which will ensure digital integration of all stages of design, construction and control.
An important part of the strategy is the development of human resources. As noted by Andrei Puchkov, USC actively cooperates with specialized educational institutions, including St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University. Within the framework of the Zavod-VTUZ project, the corporation has introduced an integrated system for training specialists for the shipbuilding industry.
The meeting also discussed issues of improving the financial condition of enterprises included in USC and creating favorable conditions for attracting investment in the sector. Nikolai Patrushev stressed the need to develop a systematic approach to solving problems related to the modernization of the industry, and noted the importance of further improving cooperation with educational institutions for the training of highly qualified personnel.[2]
By a court decision, USC became the owner of 49.99% of the Nevsky Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant
The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) received a 49.99% stake in the Nevsky Shipbuilding and Shipyard (Nevsky Shipyard), formerly owned by the Finnish company Arctech Helsinki Shipyard. Changes to the register of legal entities by a court decision were made on November 20, 2024. Read more here.
Interconnection of the Marine Instrument Corporation
The Marine Instrumentation Corporation (ILC) is fully integrated into the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), which is managed by VTB Bank. This decision was made after a meeting held in July 2024 in St. Petersburg with the participation of the leaders of the ILC and the head of USC Andrei Puchkov. Read more here.
2023: Andrey Puchkov - the new CEO of USC
On August 23, 2023, it was announced the appointment of Andrei Puchkov as the new general director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC). Prior to that, he served as First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of VTB. Read more here.
2022: Rostec transferred a Feodosia shipyard worth 0.5 billion rubles to USC
Rostec donated 100% of the shares of the Feodosia shipyard More to the ownership of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC). The corresponding agreement was concluded on March 14, 2022, the market value of the transferred shares is estimated at 432 million rubles. Read more here.
2021: Foreign suppliers refuse to service supplied equipment
In March 2021, it became known that USC began to face systemic refusals of foreign companies from servicing already supplied equipment. "If earlier this happened once a year, now we are almost every month faced with the refusal of foreign companies to come for commissioning, or to service already supplied equipment, or to supply spare parts," said the head of USC Alexei Rakhmanov.
2019: No. 25 on the list of the largest arms manufacturers in the world
The United Shipbuilding Corporation in 2019 lost 4% of its revenue and dropped to the last place in the top 25 in the world with arms sales of $4.5 billion.
2014: 15th on the list of the largest arms manufacturers in the world
At the end of 2014, the company took 15th place in the list of 100 leading world arms manufacturers prepared by the Stockholm Institute for Peace Research (SIPRI). Arms sales of the enterprise in 2014 amounted to $5,980 million [3]
Notes
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