The fleet of deceived hopes

Back in October last year, the Ministry of Economic Development held public hearings on the privatization of OJSC Arkhangelsk trawl fleet. By the end of the year, the Federal Property Management Agency was to hold a competition that would determine the new owner of the enterprise. Later, this period was postponed first to December, and then - to January -February 2013. There were hopes that this transfer was the last. According to experts, the terms allotted to the decision of the fate of ATP are spent catastrophically. But neither with the form of privatization, nor with the terms of the competition, the Federal Property Management Agency still has no understanding.

For the enterprise, the current situation is path. ATP has very good profitability indicators, in 2012 the state -owned enterprise earned over 200 million net profit. However, the debts of the fleet are much larger. In 2013, the company should pay 175 million rubles of debt, and by 2015 - 770 million. In total, the encumbrance of ATP is about one billion rubles to date. And the main problem of the enterprise is associated with a lack of liquidity: ATP does not receive enough money to normalize the supply and repair of the fleet. It is not possible to fix the situation independently, in addition, regional banks did not support the enterprise, refusing the debtor to new loans on the eve of the most important period for the ATP - the beginning of the spring Putin.

As a result, prospects for the upcoming spring remain foggy. Perhaps only one ship - the flagship of the Arkhangelsk tralflot "Captain Kravchenko" - will be able to go to sea. Today it is the most modern ship, which has completely received both repair and modernization. In principle, Captain Gorbachev will also be able to work, although he needs repairs. But the rest of the fleet risks spending 2013 at the mooring wall. The fact is that Kravchenko and Gorbachev today mines the most profitable fish breeds, thereby bringing maximum income. But it does not work to put it into circulation - money goes to service on loans taken under Kravchenko. As a result, vessels working on less valuable rocks, paradoxically sounds, are not at all taken to the sea.

It is clear that the fleet needs a real responsible owner who will not only be able to give the ATP to a new life, but wants and can work on conditions acceptable to the region - preserving the fleet itself, its registration port and fish factory. It is no secret that for the region it is extremely important to preserve the city -forming enterprise, work for sailors and employees of enterprises and, accordingly, tax deductions to the regional budget. It is gratifying that after the situation with the privatization of the Vaninsky Sea Port, when the fleet went to three Cyprus offshores, the state decided to tighten the post of privatization control. According to the Minister of Economic Development Andrei Belousov, for this the government intends to conclude an appropriate agreement with investors.

The main question is now a matter of time: whether ATP, as they say, can physically wait for the competition of the Federal Property Management Agency or will remain in history by the fleet of deceived hopes.