OREANDA-NEWS. Severnaya Verf intends to have begun the building of the vessels to transport liquefied natural gas by the year 2011. The company plans to win Gasprom’s order.

A.Fomichev said that the yard will have built 20 gas vessels by 2020.

He added that the shareholders of the yard have already found money to realize this project. At the same time he did not announce the investment volume. Earlier it was said United Industrial Corporation (the main shareholder of Severnaya Verf) plans to use the credit of VTB (about $550 mn) for the expansion of production, including the project to build new types of ships.

According to A.Fomichev, the yard will build vessels of 216 thousand cub. m. capacity and 100 thousand tons deadweight.