Domestic civil shipbuilding was competitive neither during the Soviet nor the post-Soviet era, Mr. Putin said "If you start from zero, then it must be done on the most advanced technological level", Russian Prime Minister was quoted as saying.

In this case, according to Mr. Putin, it is necessary to attract foreign partners who are leaders in global civil shipbuilding, among whom he named the companies in South Korea and Japan. At the same time, Putin noted, there was “quite a good shipbuilding” created in the Amur region, which "is working steadily”.