Saudi Arabia has started preparations for organizing batch production of new An-132 multipurpose aircraft with a carrying capacity of 9.2 tons being designed by Antonov State Enterprise (Kyiv) in cooperation with King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and Taqnia Aeronautics Co. (both based in Saudi Arabia). KACST Director Khalid A. Almalki said at…
On July 11, the seventh tanker of Project RST54, Balt-Flot 6, built by Okskaya shipyard (Hull No 5407), was put into operation, says the shipyard. It is the sixth ship of Project RST54 built by Okskaya Shipyard for Balt Flot Tanker (BFT, Saint-Petersburg), says the Project designer Marine Engineering Bureau. Krasnoye Sormovo Okskaya shipyard and…
The flag of the Russian Federation has been raised onboard the TSHD Severnaya Dvina built to the order of FSUE Rosmorport, says the company. During the flag hoisting ceremony Rosmorport and Damen Shipyards Group signed the acceptance/delivery certificate. The event was attended by Executive Director of FSUE Rosmorport Andrei Lavrishchev, Arkhangelsk Region officials, representatives of…
The owner and president of DCH Group Oleksandr Yaroslavsky who holds a controlling stake in Kharkiv Tractor Plant seeks to invest around 200 million UAH in the enterprise. “The plant could be restored within six months”, he said. He sees the plant producing tractors, and if the company receives an order from the state –…
Bogdan Corporation has started producing multipurpose KUNG vehicles (standardized military vehicle) at an automobile plant in Cherkasy. This will help the company to diversify risks related to the absence of passenger car production at the plant linked to the collapse of the automobile market in Ukraine. The plant seeks to make a wide range of…
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft plans to open a representative office in China by the end of this year, official representative of the company said. “This will be our first overseas representative office; it will be based in Beijing. Its functionality will comprise of marketing and sales of the whole range of SSJ-100 jets, their after-sales service,…
Ulyanovsk aircraft factory experts mounted interior equipment (full package) on a subsequent SSJ-100 for the “Aeroflot – Russian Airlines” entity and passed the aircraft over to the specialized enterprise JSC “Aero-Spectrum” for painting. The works on the aircraft were carried out in the framework of an industrial cooperation agreement between JSC “Aviastar-SP” and the company…