An industrial park will be built on the basis of the UDS ship repair plant
10.06.2024 - 16:40
Shipbuilders from the Baltic countries may become the first residents of the Kiliya Industrial Park, which will be built on the basis of the Kilia SRW.
The project of creating a modern Kilia industrial park will be presented at the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC2024) in Berlin, Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company reports.
“This project is no less ambitious than the modernization of the UDS fleet. As a result of the war, Ukraine was actually left without infrastructure for the construction, repair and modernization of the fleet. Factories in Crimea are occupied. The industrial base in Mykolaiv and Kherson suffered significant damage. Odesa and Chornomorsk are actually on the line of hostilities. The shipbuilding plant in Izmail has been reoriented by the owners to stevedoring activities,” the UDS notes.
In the future, all this will slow down the development of sea and river logistics. Currently, the UDS plant in Kilia is almost the only one in the country that continues to repair and build the fleet.
“This is an irreplaceable option for creating a shipbuilding base on a national scale. The plant is located 47 kilometers from the Black Sea. We have equipment, an experienced team of more than 300 specialists, our own water area, infrastructure, the possibility of placing new productions (out of the 19 hectares of the plant’s territory, we use only 9 hectares),” the UDS emphasizes.
Currently, there are several offers from foreign companies to locate a joint production facility in Kilia. Shipbuilders from the Baltic countries may become the first residents of the industrial park.
The UDS noted that the format of the industrial park makes it possible to use the potential as efficiently as possible. For example, modern European shipyards are, as a rule, industrial technology parks that work in many directions at once – mechanical engineering, metalworking, equipment production.
We will remind that the focus of attention of the UDS this year remains the modernization of the fleet, increasing the volume of transportation, as well as cooperation with foreign companies.
