MOSCOW, may 21 — RIA Novosti. “United shipbuilding Corporation” (USC) has terminated the contract with JSC “Investment. Engineering. Construction” (JSC “I. I. S.”) for the construction of a dry dock for the repair of aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov”, but in terms of repair of the vehicle is not affected, said the RIA Novosti on Thursday the head of the Corporation Alexey Rakhmanov.
Earlier media have informatsiia that the company “I. I. C” filed a complaint to the Prosecutor General for customers building “Center of ship repair “Zvezdochka” and USC that are alleged to have created impossible conditions for the continuation of construction of the dock.
“the Contract with JSC “I. I. S.” was terminated the day before. We are currently discussing the selection of a new contractor. There is a choice of three major Russian companies owned by Russian businessmen responsible. With each of these potential contractors agreed on the necessity to begin docking ships — the summer of 2021, in order to catch the time to send it to the customer in 2022,” — said Rakhmanov.
in addition, he noted, the previous contractor should be held accountable for spent 900 million of the advance payment of 2.6 billion rubles.
“the company’s Financial condition unsatisfactory, the advance they took a lot more than the completed work. Is not more than 10% of the first phase of a $ 7-billion of the contracted 24”, — said the head of the USC.
as an example, he reported that the contractor scored a total of 145 piles of the 728 required for the device cofferdam and pumping water in order to start work in the dry dock.
At the same time, JSC “I. I. S.” complains of the USC that the customer has created the conditions in which reconstruction of the dock is impossible. In particular, the “I. I. S.” he received an advance of 2.6 billion rubles of the promised down payment 7.1 billion rubles, and “Star” not paid for actual work performed at about 800 million rubles. Also, “Asterisk” was detained by the provision of design estimate documentation for the first stage of reconstruction more than six months, the second one is not sent so far, complained the contractor.
In December last year on the “Admiral Kuznetsov” there was a fire in the first unit as the result of sparks from welding work in the hold, where the spilled fuel. The fire was extinguished nearly a day, two people were killed and more than ten were injured. Damage was estimated at 500 million rubles. USC head has told RIA Novosti that the fire will not affect the ship date to the fleet in 2022 after repair and modernization. Now the ship is being repaired in Murmansk.
