Electricity restored to Nerpa shipyard:

Electricity is back at the Nerpa naval shipyard on the Kola Peninsula after the yard made an agreement with the local electricity company on repayment of a 50 million rubles debt.

The shipyard, which is involved in scrapping of nuclear submarines and repairs of vessels for Russia’s Northern Fleet, was cut off from power on April 6 by the Kolenergosbyt electricity company after failing to fulfill an agreement on repayment of a €1,2 million debt, BarentsObserver reported.

Power was restored to the yard only a few days later, after Nerpa and Kolenergosbyt concluded yet another agreement on repayment, Murmansk Business News reports. The shipyard has committed to repay its debt in three months.

Nerpa is not the only shipyard owned by the Ministry of Defense that has high electricity bills. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, four ship repair yards in and around Murmansk has a total debt of more than 120 million rubles to Kolenergosbyt.

Source: BarentsObserver.com 26 April 2011

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