ST.-PETERSBURG, March 14 - RAPSI. The St. Petersburg Commercial Court will review on May 7 the Rosenergoatom Concern's request to have the Baltiysky Zavod shipyard's $456 million debt entered into its creditors ledger.
The nuclear corporation ordered from the shipyard a power-generating unit for the world's first floating nuclear heat and power plant. The order was placed in March 2009.
The project cost is about 10 billion rubles ($339 million).
Baltiysky was put into administration on January 13 as part of its bankruptcy case. To date, the court has ordered the shipyard to enter into the creditors ledger its 852.87 million ruble ($29 million) debt to Sberbank. The court will hear on March 26 several creditors requests to include in the ledger more debts totaling 2.97 billion rubles ($100.6 million).
The Baltiysky Zavod builds icebreakers, naval and cargo ships. It also manufactures engineering products and energy equipment and supplies nonferrous and core-mold castings.