What Vyborg Shipyard P does

Vyborg Shipyard PJS (ПАО «Выборгский судостроительный завод», PAO VSZ) is a Russian civil-purpose shipbuilding enterprise founded in 1948 and headquartered in Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, on the shore of Khovinlahti Bay. The yard occupies 44.18 hectares with 82,500 m² of production area, 300m of outfitting quays, and annual metal-processing and thermal-cutting capacities of 40,000 and 30,000 tonnes respectively. It has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of AO United Shipbuilding Corporation (OSK), the Russian state-owned shipbuilding holding, since 2012, and is publicly listed on the Moscow Exchange (VSYDP).

The company's product portfolio centers on ice-class vessels and offshore structures, including the Project 21900M diesel-electric icebreakers (18 MW, Icebreaker 7), IBSV01 multifunctional icebreaking support vessels (22 MW, Icebreaker 8, 121.7m), the Aker ARC 124 port icebreaker Ob with four Azipod thrusters, MOSS CS-50 MkII semi-submersible drilling platforms, KMT01/KMT02 stern freezer trawler-processors, platform supply vessel hulls, and historical work on the Sea Launch floating space launch complex. The yard is ISO 9001-2015 certified and recognized by Lloyd's Register, Bureau Veritas, RINA, Germanischer Lloyd, and the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, supporting bids for both Russian-flag and internationally-classed vessels. It also offers full ship repair, modernization, and reclassification services.

Vyborg generates revenue primarily through project-based new-construction contracts awarded via competitive tendering by Russian federal agencies (Rosmorrechflot, Atomflot) and state-owned enterprises (Gazprom Neft, Gazflot, Sovcomflot, Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet), with secondary revenue from ship repair and offshore platform module fabrication. Pricing is negotiated on a project-by-project basis with no public disclosure, and go-to-market is direct enterprise and government field sales rather than commercial channel distribution. The customer mix is dominated by Russian state-owned counterparties tied to Arctic, government maritime, and energy programs, with secondary work for Norwegian offshore operators in prior years.

Name

Vyborg Shipyard P

Legal name

ПАО «Выборгский судостроительный завод»

Website

https://vyborgshipyard.ru

Company type

Public

Founded year

1948

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Vyborg Shipyard PJS is a Russian civil shipbuilder founded in 1948 and controlled by state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation, specializing in ice-class vessels, icebreakers, offshore drilling platforms, and fishing trawlers for Russian federal agencies and state energy enterprises.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Shipbuilding

NAICS

Ship Building and Repairing (336611)

SIC

Ship & Boat Building & Repairing (3730)

akta.pro primary industry

Auxiliary & Logistics Naval Vessels (Replenishment, Support, Hospital) (IMAJABAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Commercial Ship Repair & Drydocking (TLAKAKAA), Naval & Government Vessel Maintenance & Modernization (TLAKAKAB)

Keywords

• Ice-class shipbuilding
• Icebreaker construction
• Offshore platform fabrication
• Fishing trawler construction
• Ship repair services

Headquarters

HQ city

Vyborg

HQ country

Russia

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. New Ship Construction: Construction of civilian vessels including icebreakers, fishing trawlers, platform supply vessels, and general cargo ships. Revenue is generated through project-based contracts with government and private customers.
2. Ship Repair Services: Comprehensive vessel repair including hull repairs, mechanical systems, electrical systems, painting, and modernization services
3. Offshore Platform Modules: Construction of upper structure modules for offshore drilling platforms and specialized marine structures

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Vyborg Shipyard P designs, builds, and repairs civil-purpose marine vessels at its shipyard in Vyborg, Russia. Core products include diesel-electric icebreakers (Project 21900M, IBSV01, Aker ARC 124), ice-class fishing trawler-processors (KMT01, KMT02), semi-submersible offshore drilling platforms (Moss CS-50 MkII, Shelf-series), platform supply vessels, and ROV/subsea support hulls. The yard also provides full-service ship repair, modernization, and reclassification. Customers are Russian federal maritime agencies and state-owned energy, shipping, and fishing enterprises.

Product overview

Vyborg Shipyard PJSC (ПАО «Выборгский судостроительный завод») is a major Russian shipbuilding enterprise located in Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, founded in 1948 and now part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (ОСК). The yard's core offering is the construction and repair of civil-purpose vessels, organized around several product families: (1) Icebreakers and icebreaking support vessels including the Project 21900М diesel-electric icebreakers, IBSV01 multi-functional icebreaking support vessels (the world's most powerful diesel-electric icebreakers at 22 MW), and Aker ARC 124 port icebreakers with Azipod propulsion; (2) Fishing vessels including the КМТ01 and КМТ02 series of stern freezer trawler-processors for the Russian fishing fleet; (3) Offshore oil and gas platforms including the MOSS CS-50 MkII semi-submersible drilling units for Gazflot's Arctic shelf operations and the Shelf-series of floating drilling rigs; (4) Platform supply vessels and ROV carrier hulls for Norwegian operators; and (5) Specialized vessels such as the Sea Launch floating space launch platform and various timber carriers, tankers, and container ships. The yard also provides comprehensive ship repair services including hull work, mechanical systems, painting, and reclassification. Production capacity includes 64,000 m² of covered indoor area, 18,500 m² of outdoor area, 300m of outfitting quays, and lifting capacity for blocks up to 300 tonnes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• КМТ01 Stern Freezer Trawler-Processor (Project KMT01) Series of four stern factory trawlers for Russian fishing fleet operators, producing fillets, roe, liver, fishmeal, and fish oil onboard with automated fish processing capacity up to 140 tonnes of raw catch per day.
• КМТ02.01/02/03 Freezer Trawler (Project KMT02) Series of freezer trawlers with Ice3 ice reinforcement and a next-generation trawl complex for demersal fish species, capable of processing and freezing up to 100 tonnes of fish per day with combined cargo holds up to 375 m³.
• Project 21900M Diesel-Electric Icebreaker (Vladivostok, Murmansk, Novorossiysk) 18 MW diesel-electric icebreaker, Icebreaker 7 class, capable of breaking ice up to 1.5 meters thick, for federal Arctic and Northern Sea Route operations.
• Project IBSV01 Multifunctional Icebreaking Support Vessel (Alexander Sannikov, Andrey Vilkitskiy) 22 MW multi-functional icebreaking support vessel, Icebreaker 8 class, 121.7m length, for ice convoy operations, tanker assistance, rescue operations, firefighting, and oil spill response.
• Project Aker ARC 124 Port Icebreaker (Ob) Port icebreaker with four Azipod thrusters (2.5 MW each), Icebreaker 7 class, designed to escort LNG carriers at Sabetta port as part of the Yamal LNG project.
• Moss CS-50 MkII Semi-Submersible Drilling Platform (Polyarnaya Zvezda, Severnoye Siyaniye) Semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit with integrated topside modules, designed for harsh-environment Arctic operations for Gazflot on Russia's continental shelf.
• Edda Flora ROV Survey Vessel Hull (Project ST-254CD) Hull of an ROV survey vessel, 2,750 tonnes weight, built for Karmsund Maritime Services AS (Norway).
• Skandi Texel Platform Supply Vessel Hull (Project PSV MT 6009S) Platform supply vessel hull, 1,440 tonnes weight, built for Fitjar Mek. Verksted AS (Norway).
• Sea Launch Floating Space Launch Complex Conversion of a semi-submersed drilling rig into a floating launch platform for rocket launchers under the Sea Launch consortium.
• Project R-70201 Icebreaking Supply Vessel (Alexey Chirikov, Vitus Bering) Icebreaking supply vessel, 5,500 displacement, built for Sovcomflot.
• Havila Troll Multi-Purpose Rescue Vessel (Project Rolls-Royce UT 527) Multi-purpose rescue vessel of Rolls-Royce UT 527 design, 2,000 displacement, built for Havyard Leirvik AS.
• Kapitan Lus Timber Packet Carrier (Project 15750) Timber packet carrier, 5,036 displacement, built for Northern Shipping Company.
• Pioner Moskvy Timber Packet Carrier (Project 1590P) Timber packet carrier, 6,800 displacement, in a series of 27 units built 1973-1982.
• Ship Repair Services (Судоремонт) Comprehensive ship repair, modernization, and reclassification services covering hull repairs, mechanical systems, electrical equipment, painting, insulation, pipeline systems, deck machinery, main engines, propulsion systems, and navigation electronics, including dimensional modernization and reclassification from river to sea registry.
• Shelf-Series Floating Drilling Rigs (Shelf-2 through Shelf-10) Series of self-elevating and semi-submersible floating drilling rigs for offshore oil and gas development, with displacements ranging from 3,446 to 19,770 tonnes.

Quantifiable outcome

• 6 modern icebreakers delivered between 2012-2019
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• United Shipbuilding Corporation (OSK)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2012PAO VSZ has been a member of AO United Shipbuilding Corporation since 2012. OSK is the largest shipbuilding holding in Russia, consolidating major Russian shipyards and marine equipment manufacturers. VSZ operates as a subsidiary within this state-owned holding structure, benefiting from coordinated defense and civilian shipbuilding programs.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• VARD: Norwegian offshore and specialized vessel builder (part of Fincantieri). Comparable in platform supply vessels and offshore service vessels — a category VSZ historically served with hulls for Norwegian operators (Skandi Texel, Edda Flora).
• Samsung Heavy Industries: South Korean offshore and shipbuilding major. Direct collaboration partner with VSZ on the MOSS CS-50 MkII platform upper structures, and competes in the global semi-submersible drilling rig market that VSZ targets.

Direct peers

• Baltic Shipyard: Sister yard within the same United Shipbuilding Corporation (OSK) holding, also based in St. Petersburg. Competes for OSK-allocated programs and historically builds large-tonnage vessels including nuclear icebreakers, making it the closest direct peer in technology, customer base, and corporate parentage.
• Admiralty Shipyards: St. Petersburg-based OSK shipyard building submarines, frigates, and civilian vessels. Shares OSK corporate parentage, Russian state customer base, and competing for similar civil program allocations as VSZ.
• Kleven Maritime: Norwegian shipbuilder historically active in offshore service vessels and specialized tonnage. Comparable in vessel class (offshore supply, stern trawlers) to VSZ's Norwegian-customer era hulls.
• Sevmash: Russia's largest shipyard within OSK, located in Severodvinsk, specializing in nuclear-powered icebreakers and naval submarines. Directly comparable in icebreaker construction capability and OSK program allocation, though significantly larger and more defense-oriented.
• Yantar Shipyard: Kaliningrad-based OSK shipyard building frigates, corvettes, and civilian vessels. Competes for OSK program allocation and shares the same Russian state customer base and OSK corporate governance.
• Arctech Helsinki Shipyard: Helsinki-based icebreaker and Arctic vessel specialist with historical Russian ownership ties. Directly comparable niche focus on ice-class vessel construction, though smaller scale and currently repositioned under Western ownership.

Others

• Aker Arctic Technology: Finnish icebreaker design house whose ARC 124 design VSZ used for the port icebreaker Ob. Functions as a design/technology partner and reference benchmark for ice-class capability, with deep visibility into VSZ's product positioning.

Regional players

• Havyard Leirvik: Norwegian shipbuilder of offshore service and specialized vessels; VSZ built the Havila Troll rescue vessel hull for Havyard. Direct comparable in hull construction for offshore and rescue vessel categories.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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