The construction is not less than 80 modern ships for fishing fleet to be held in Russia for the next five years. This was announced on Friday in Vladivostok, the Deputy Minister of industry and trade of the Russian Federation Oleg Ryazantsev.

"Our industry has received an order, in the next five years is not less than 80 modern high-tech ships [fishing fleet]," said Ryazantsev, speaking at the plenary meeting of the International far Eastern marine showroom.

Deputy head of the Ministry of industry and trade of the Russian Federation noted that until the end of the year it is planned to sign about 60 contracts for the construction of vessels and marine facilities. Speech, including, the construction of ships for the Far East. Ryazantsev also expressed the hope that some of them will be built at the shipyards of the far East region.

The first international far Eastern sea fair is held in Vladivostok from 26 to 28 July. It involved more than 1,5 thousand people from Russia and the Asia-Pacific region, including representatives of the shipbuilding and ship-repairing companies. The participants of the exhibition will discuss the problems of shipbuilding, infrastructure and logistics and regulation of the industry. The Central event will be the plenary session "Water transport in the era of digitization and new technologies".