Azov Shipyard was destroyed, Mariupol city council reported

The Azov Shipyard (SRZ LLC) was destroyed as a result of hostilities in Mariupol, Mariupol city council reported in its Telegram.

Azov Shipyard was founded in 1886. It is the oldest plant in Mariupol. After the Azov Shipyard, a port and metallurgical plants were built.

“So called “Russian world” leaves behind just ruins and death. The invaders do not need our city and its people. They are only interested in the territory and the corridor to Crimea, which they are building on the bones of tens of thousands of Ukrainians”.

Azov Shipyard did cargo and equipment transshipments up to 100 thousand tons per month. Mechanical engineering was the second priority for the Shipyard. The enterprise produced grabs, equipment for metallurgy (ladles, tippers, metal items of varying complexity), manhole covers for open railroad cars.

In 2020, the company supplied grapples and ladles to Ilyich Iron and Steel Works and Zaporizhzhia Ferroalloy Plant.

Earlier Azov Shipyard was included in the list of objects for small-scale privatization. The auction was postponed several times. The last date when the auction was to take place is February 25, 2022.

The integral property complex of the plant included 28 real estate objects, two land plots with an area of ​​1,12 hectares and 2,41 hectares, as well as 77 pieces of equipment. The berths used by the enterprise in its work were not objects of privatization. The starting price of the property complex was UAH 211,4 million.