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As it became known“”, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (KHMAO) requests the government to allocate additional funds on preferential leasing of ships, in particular hydrofoil. Now, according to “Kommersant”, the Ministry of industry and trade is preparing to submit an application to the budget on the allocation of in year adjustments, additional 35 billion rubles for the current year. Interlocutors “” do not exclude that, if it is satisfied, the money will be divided between the State transport leasing company (gtlk) and captive operator of the United shipbuilding Corporation (USC) “Mispressing”.Regions and the shipping company asked the authorities to allocate funds for preferential leasing of water transport. As he writes in his letter of 5 June Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and the mayor of Moscow, head of the working group of the state Council of the Russian Federation on countering the spread of coronavirus Sergey Sobyanin, the Governor of KHMAO Natalia Komarova, given the geographical features of the County, the life support system for remote areas directly depends on possibilities of inland waterway transport. In the region there is a need to update the passenger fleet, she adds, and requests to increase in 2020, preferential financing lease (the volume of this program is only RUB 5.6 billion).In 2019 KHMAO according to the program of preferential leasing has acquired two high-speed hydrofoils “Valdai”, built on the capacity of the Central design Bureau for hydrofoil (CKB po SPK) im. R. E. Alekseeva, at a concessional rate of 2.5% through the “Mispressing”. As explained “Kommersant” the General Director of TSKB po SPK Sergey Italians, now “Severrechflot”, serving passenger traffic in KHMAO and YANAO, ready to order at least four of the “Meteor”. If financing on favorable lease will be allocated and the contract is concluded in the near future, vessels will be delivered in 2022-2023 years, he explained. Interest in the project also showed in Cheboksary, Ulyanovsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, said Mr. the Italians, a lot of potential updates and in St. Petersburg. According to the calculations, it is necessary to replace the 50 “Meteors,” added top Manager. For shipping companies need support from the Federal budget, and in the case of passenger transport social and regional subsidies, he said. The cost of the “Meteors”, he refused to name, our sources estimate them in the 300-450 million rubles.apiece.STLC and “Mispressing” fight for funds on favorable lease with 2017. The Ministry applied for the allocation of the budget in the years 2020-2022 for this purpose 105 billion rubles for the purchase of up to 495 vessels, funds STLC, but the proposal was not supported by the Ministry of Finance. In the spring, the transport Ministry proposed to allocate the STLC 35 billion rubles (see “Kommersant” on April 27), but this measure, according to “Kommersant”, was not approved. By July 1, the government��elsto must determine whether the capitalization of leasing companies with state participation operating in the field of shipbuilding. According to Kommersant’s sources in the industry, the Ministry of industry and trade is preparing to go out again with the request for the release of 35 billion rubles, with the upcoming budget adjustments. Interlocutors “” do not exclude that the funds could be divided between the two companies.At USC “b” recalled that “Mispressing” only in 2019 leased to 16 ships, including two of the “Valdai”. “Since 2009, through our leasing programs was contracted, 56 vessels, of which 18 passenger,”— said in a USC. In STLC the topic do not comment, but said earlier that in the framework of the program of preferential leasing started in 2018, the company has contracted about 30 ships. Kommersant’s source familiar with the situation says that the extra 35 billion rubles and borrowed funds market was planned to build more than 60 vessels, including 25 passenger.The head “Infoline-Analytics” Michael Burmistrov says that without state support the construction of passenger ships, particularly after a major crisis 2020 could be made. Therefore, the renewal of funding for the program of preferential leasing is a necessary element to the survival of the passenger fleet and shipbuilders focused on the construction of passenger ships, he said.Anastasia Vedeneeva