Russia will construct 3 frigates for Indian Navy on time-Official

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Moscow, July 27 (UNI) The contract for building three frigates for Indian Navy will be completed on schedule, a top official of the Baltic ship-building plant Yantar in Kaliningrad said today.

''There are no reasons to doubt that the contract will be carried out in time and the work of plant specialists will be of high quality,'' the Director General of the plant, Nikolai Volov told Itar-Tass news agency.

''Otherwise, the plant would not have won the tender among leading shipyards of the country,'' he said.

The Kaliningrad plant has launched building the first of 3 frigates for India, with a ceremony for construction of the first of three frigates at the Yantar, today.

Indian ambassador to Moscow Kanwal Sibal, Russian President Vladimir Putin's adviser and head of the united ship-building corporation Alexander Burutin, the Rosoboronexport company's Deputy Director General Vladimir Pakhomov and other high-ranking officials attended the ceremony.

The construction of the first frigate has already started. The work has begun to cut metal and weld metal constructions. Additional equipment has been purchased. More than 200 workers of various fields of specialization have been employed, and 500 more will join them soon to carry out the contract, the agency said.

The 1.6 billion-dollar contract for building three frigates for India's Navy was signed in New Delhi on July 14, 2006. It is the biggest order placed with the Yantar plant in recent years. India will receive the frigates in 2012.

UNI

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