VLADIVOSTOK, July 18 (RIA Novosti) - South Korea's STX shipyard has started building an ice-class tanker with deadweight of 51,000 metric tons for the Primorsk Shipping Corporation, the company based in Russia's Far East said on Friday.
A company spokesman told RIA Novosti that the first of a series of seven tankers will be built by November this year, while the other six will be ready by 2010.
South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world's largest shipbuilder, is building six giant tankers for the Primorsk Shipping Corporation (PRISCO) with deadweight of 104,000 tons each.
At present the PRISCO has 18 tankers with aggregate deadweight of around 1.2 mln tons. By 2010, the company plans to raise the figure to at least 2 million tons.
PRISCO is expected to ship oil products to Pacific Rim countries when the first stage of the East Siberian-Pacific pipeline is completed.
