OREANDA-NEWS. August 29, 2012.  The development of the shipbuilding industry will help Ukraine to solve the problem with the sale of metal. The Prime Minister Mykola Azarov disclosed it on air of the Mykolayiv Regional State Broadcasting Company.

"For us, the shipbuilding is one of the key industries that can use our domestic metal. Currently, there are problems with the sale of metal, and the metallurgical industry - is one of the foundations of our economy," Mykola Azarov said.

According to the Prime Minister, within a crisis on world markets, increase in domestic consumption of steel products will contribute to economic development.

"For us, usage of metal is that part of an economy which in crisis on foreign markets will enable to develop Ukraine's economy," Mykola Azarov said.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister noted the Government would create the most comfortable conditions for the domestic shipbuilding development.

" We can't buying the ships somewhere while we have plenty of domestic metal and technologies for their construction," the Prime Minister emphasized.