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Investigators and prosecutors of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine are once again conducting searches at shipbuilding enterprises (Kherson, Nikolaev), in the head office of Smart-Holding (Kiev) and in employees’ apartments. 

The company is sympathetic to the challenging situation Ukraine is facing today, but we believe that only the state is in position to give a clear answer to the question of relevance and necessity to develop its own navy.

Smart-Holding considers the statement made by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine about the arrest of shares in Chernomorsky Shipbuilding Yard (ChSY) (Nikolaev), as well as about the initiation of a pre-trial investigation into alleged abuse of official position by representatives of the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) and the Ministry of Industrial Policy in making amendments to the shipyard’s share purchase contract, as a pressure on the Company and its shareholder.

Smart Maritime Group (SMG) has invested UAH 30 million in the expansion of its production facilities for the manufacture of metal structures and modernization of the fixed assets at Kherson shipyard.

Kherson Shipyard of Smart Maritime Group has completed a deep modernization of Donmaster Spirit dry cargo ship (Belize colours) and has given it over to the customer. 

Today at 9:15, fire broke out at Nikolaev shipyard of Smart Maritime Group (Chernomorsky Shipbuilding Yard) during the gas cutting repair operations on Neteshyn diving support ship. The fire was promptly brought under control and extinguished by the plant’s staff and by personnel of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

Smart Maritime Group has signed two new contracts for the manufacture of large metal structures that will be fulfilled by specialists of Nikolaev production site (Chernomorsky Shipbuilding Yard).

ANDRE MICHEL1 coastal vessel with a deadweight of 1,600 tonnes of Ship Management Support B.V. (Klundert, the Netherlands) has been delivered to Kherson Shipyard of Smart Maritime Group for repair.

Nikolaev production site of Smart Maritime Group (Chernomorsky Shipbuilding Yard) has completed an order to assemble metal structures for the construction of a bridge across the Dnieper River in Zaporozhye city.

U700 Neteshyn marine diving vessel of the Ukrainian Naval Forces has been lifted up onto the near-staple platform of the building slipway for repair at Nikolaev site of Smart Maritime Group (Chernomorsky Shipbuilding Yard).