According to the head of the salvation committee of the yard Mr Ihor Ovdiyenko, the works on orders given to the enterprise have been stopped. For the moment the yard is doing ship repair only.

He said that “The yard has curtailed production and is just pretending to work. A three day working week has been introduced on the enterprise and it cannot be called normal work. Owners of the yard plead the world financial crisis, but in order to overcome it we must build ships, not talk on and on.”