Posted on December 12, 2025
The dredgers may be built on the company’s secondary slipways
The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) plans to build dredgers of its own design at St. Petersburg based Admiralty Shipyards, IAA PortNews reported.
Vladimir Rachin, Deputy Director of the USC Civil Shipbuilding Sales and Contracting Department said there are optimistic plans to build dredgers that could replace the products of Western contractors (after their withdrawal from the Russian market) to carry out dredging work at the most important areas of the Northern Sea Route.
These dredgers will be designed by USC’ own naval architecture and marine engineering firms and could be built at the Admiralty Shipyards’ slipways that are not busy, USC said.
As a reminder, according to estimates by the Rosatom State Corporation’s Hydrographic Enterprise, the total volume of dredging on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) alone will reach 60 million cbm of materials over the next five years.
Russia’s largest Dredging Companies Forum is held annually in Moscow as part of the Hydraulic Engineering Structures and Dredging Congress by PortNews IAA in partnership with Rosmorport and the Hydrographic Enterprise, with the support of the Russian Maritime Board.
