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Minister Karimov had a meeting with representatives of a Turkmenistan delegation consisting of experts from the Turkmenistan State Service of Maritime and River Transportation, the State Committee for Water Resources of Turkmenistan and the Balkan Shipbuilding and Repairing Yard.

“We have a huge potential for mutual cooperation. Today’s meeting is aimed not only to sum up our joint work, but this is also an opportunity to outline a work plan for the coming year of 2020”, Tatarstan Minister of Industry and Trade said.

Summing up the partnership between Tatarstan and Turkmenistan, the Minister noted that in the first 9 months of 2019, the foreign trade turnover of the two regions amounted to US$ 65 million.

Also during the meeting, the parties discussed the main aspects of cooperation between the Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation and Turkmenistan. On December 23, the delegation from Turkmenistan visited the Zelenodolsk Shipyard, where guests made a tour of a number of production workshops.

Today, the Gorky Zelenodolsk Shipyard hosted a ceremony of launching the second serial 1st-rank border patrol ship of Project 22100 which was given the name of “Anadyr”.

The event was attended by representatives of the Border Guard of the Russian Federal Security Service, officials of the Zelenodolsk Municipality, top executives of the Ak Bars Holding Company, the Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation, as well as representatives of designer and contracting organisations.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov delivered a welcoming speech on behalf of the Tatarstan Government: “I am sure that ‘Anadyr’ will serve well and reliably guard the borders of our country in the Far East”.

The border guard vessels (patrol boats) of the Okean project developed by the Almaz Central Maritime Design Bureau (St. Petersburg) are the first ships in the contemporary history of Russia designed entirely for the requirements of maritime border guards, are multifunctional, have high combat potential and are capable of participating in full-scale rescue operations. In terms of technical characteristics, they have no equals in the world.