MOSCOW, December 8 (AVN) - The Russian Navy has been writing off 20 to 25 quays yearly in the past six years, while building only two to three new ones a year, a spokesman for the Navy engineering service said on Wednesday.
According to him, the Navy is doing its best to improve the situation. It has already directed technical orders for designing a new generation of mobile quays which would ensure provision of energy, heating, communication facilities and water to the moored ships, he told the Military News Agency.
Besides, new quays will help extend lifetime of ship power plants by 20 percent, and, as a result, extent overhaul periods of ships and submarines with conventional power plants.
The orders will be effected by the naval base faculty of the General Komarovsky Military Engineering Institute and the St. Petersburg-based Intertekhservis research company.
The Navy engineering service is also allocating money for capital repairs and modernisation of stationary quays. Their construction will be effected by the module method.