Russian shipbuilding enterprises plan to launch five new cruise ships from 2025 to 2027. This was announced by the co-head of the commission of the Russian Union of the Tourism Industry for cruises, Deputy General Director of Mosturflot, Svetlana Goncharova.
110 ships sail along Russian rivers, and there are already new ones built in the last five years. There are three such ships with a total passenger capacity of 700 seats. The plans for 2025-2027 include the construction and commissioning of five more new ships, which is one thousand passenger seats.
According to Svetlana Goncharova, this measure is necessary due to the reduction in the total capacity of existing ships in recent years. This figure has decreased by 30% due to modernization.
That is, there is an update of 70%: the entire hotel part is changing, engineering communications, and this led to the fact that if earlier there were 36 thousand passenger seats on 110 ships, due to re-equipment, modernization, the number of passenger seats was reduced to 25 thousand.
Earlier www1.ru reported that the passenger ship "City Cruise-1" was put into operation.