MOSCOW, April 5 (AVN) - Major financial organisations continue their attempts to initiate privatisation of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aviation consortium, Vyacheslav Shport, deputy chairman of the parliamentary industry, construction and knowledge intensive technologies committee, told the Military News Agency.
According to the MP, who used to be technical director of the consortium, a privatisation should be based on an economic study, which would show the usefulness of the project for the state, personnel, and the local authorities.
At the same time, there are many examples of the companies, which have collapsed due to such undeveloped actions, for instance the Amur shipyard.
The Komsomolsk-on-Amur consortium, one of Russia's largest aircraft makers, has been mainly specialising in the production of SU-27 Flanker fighters. In addition to that the plant builds BE-103 amphibians and S-80 multipurpose planes, as well as various conversion products.
The consortium employs one third of the city workers. The company is stable, it pays its taxes, provides sufficient wages and supports the social security sphere. The plant provides 24 percent of the city taxes, and 78 percent of the Khabarovsk territory industrial output. On the whole, the company co-operates with as many as 1.5m Russian citizens.
At the moment the company is building fighters for China for the total sum of approximately USD2bn. In addition to that the plant is working on modernisation projects, production of aircraft test models, and the repairs of SU-27 Flankers.
"Those who want to privatise the plant are after only one goal, that is redistribution of financial flows, which is against state interests," Shport said.