New ship-repair yard of Azerbaijan State Caspian Sea Shipping Company receives first orders

A new ship-repair yard of the Azerbaijan State Caspian Sea Shipping Company, which is under construction in Zikh settlement, has already received the first orders. Chief of the company Aydin Bashirov said that the new ship-repair yard has already received the order from the Kazakhstan party on repair of two tankers with carrying capacity of 13,000 tons each.
“Work will be started begin in April. Turkmenistan has also vessels which are engaged in oil production and they are under repair during 5-6 years. As the result, neighboring countries carry out repair of small vessels in Azerbaijan,” A. Bashirov told.
The new yard  is constructed for displacement of plant named after the commune of Paris, located actually in the central part of Baku.