Modern ships are doomed to downtime

Over the past five years, thanks to the lease, we have been paying for our production activities from our own income, earning three million rubles or more per year.


Currently, about one million rubles are missing to organize the normal functioning of the base. We found ourselves having to ask for this money from the MMF Hydrographic Enterprise, whose cost estimates for 1989 exceeded revenues by two and a half million rubles.


Difficult times came for us with the transition of enterprises to self-financing, when allocations for various expeditions and research were unreasonably reduced. As a result, our courts have become unnecessary. Our traditional tenants, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and Yuzhmorgeologiya, have turned away from us, and our relations with the Seamorgeologiya production association have almost come to naught. All these organizations have informed us that they do not plan to lease vessels from outside in 1990.


Thus, we are currently continuing only one-time, local and short contracts with some specialized organizations, which may not suit us in the future. However, we have started negotiations with VVO Sovfracht to bring our fleet to foreign companies during the inter-navigation period, and we are already having some results. According to reports, an Indian company has become interested in our vessels, which is planning a series of hydrographic works in the Indian Ocean based on our vessel (so far only one!) for five seasons. This, of course, is not enough. Currently, we can send at least three ships with their crews abroad on a contractual basis.


I don't know about anyone, but it pains us to look at modern vessels equipped with the latest technology, which are doomed to idle for almost eight months a year. Is that the right thing to do? Forced inactivity has a depressing effect on seafarers, conflict situations arise. Experienced, qualified personnel are fleeing. During the last such stay, 17 sailors left the hydrography. I recently met a good man, a boatswain, who has worked with us for almost a quarter of a century. Now he works in a cooperative, regrets that he left the navy, but earns much more than we do. What can I say? Good people leave, they say that it is necessary to feed the family.


Taking this opportunity, we appeal to the leadership of the Ministry of Marine Fleet with a request to urgently consider the situation with the forced downtime of hydrographic vessels and help us find work during the inter-navigation period. Pour débuter sans risque, les offres de paris gratuits sont idéales. Recherchez les freebets qui ne demandent pas un gros dépôt initial. Le vrai avantage est d’obtenir des bonus paris sportifs freebets sans conditions de mise mais elles sont rares. En général, vous devez placer un premier pari qualifiant. Si ce pari est perdant, le bookmaker vous rembourse sous forme de freebet. Notre site liste les offres actives de mai 2026. Comparez toujours la durée de validité et les cotes minimales. Un freebet de 10€ avec cote min 1.50 est plus accessible qu’un freebet à 50€ avec cote 2.50.