OJSC Sevastopol Marine Plant (Sevmorzavod) has been brought to the dire state after its privatization, and its management has shown no initiative, relying solely on government orders, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.
"What the private management offers is ‘give us government contracts for the construction of ships’. Let the taxpayers pay us, because we cannot do anything ourselves," he said opening a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers in Kyiv on Wednesday.
The premier added that even if the government does make an order, its execution is highly questionable, since skilled workers have resigned, and the equipment has been scrapped.
Azarov said that the society doesn’t need the owners with such way of thinking.
OJSC Sevastopol Marine Plant is one of the largest enterprises specializing in shipbuilding and ship repairing in Ukraine.
Since late 2010 the company has been controlled by the Ukrprominvest Group, the honorary president of which is Head of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
Earlier, the enterprise was controlled by Russian businessman Konstantin Grigorishin. Before this the company belonged to Lebanese businessmen Rafik Dau.
