Western sanctions and the sad experience of working with Ukrainian enterprises play against shipbuilding plants in Crimea.
This was stated by participants in a meeting in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, during which Senator from Sevastopol Ekaterina Altabaeva called on Moscow to help with the workload of Crimean enterprises, where there are still old personnel who were inspired by hope after 2014, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We have a story: a businessman at our shipyard, the Republic of Crimea, the Gulf, the Sea, our ship repair yards in Sevastopol - a businessman will come there with very great caution, because everyone is afraid of sanctions. No matter how much we have tried to attract new contracts to our enterprises, this is a problem. Therefore, ship repair, which is carried out by Sevastopol, needs to work with the Black Sea Fleet,” said Boris Kabakov, director of the Department of Shipbuilding Industry and Marine Equipment of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Andrey Buzinov, Vice President of United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC for logistics and supply management, added that their recent Ukrainian past also plays against Crimean shipbuilders. As an example, he cited the Sevastopol Marine Plant, previously controlled by Petro Poroshenko.
“What we are faced with is a problem of a systemic nature: even if the state customer, in any person, holds some kind of competition, which the Sevastopol Marine Plant can enter and does, and comes out with an effective price, and, indeed, the plant can already operate efficiently, but he always loses on the principle of “experience.”
What is your experience in Ukraine? We must make some reservations in competitive procedures, in tender documentation, when the state customer talks about experience. We can absolutely compete on price, on time, the plant is efficient, the plant is already in operation, but when experience is put in place - well, what experience does Crimea have? How can it be confirmed, with what contracts?” – Buzinov gave an example.