State-owned Russian yard company United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) is to restart cruiseship production at the Arctech Helsinki Shipyard in Finland.
A USC spokesman said the shipyard group is in talks with clients from Japan, Monaco and the Nordic countries, the Sputnik news agency said.
And USC vice president for civil shipbuilding Yevgeny Zagorodniy told Russian news service RNS that Arctech is preparing for a period of sustainable development.
USC also hopes to receive new orders for the construction of icebreakers.
In September, USC said it could ink a cruiseship contract before the end of 2016.
Any deal would be the second cruiseship to be built in Russia in the post-Soviet era.
The first, for operation in the Caspian and Black Sea, started construction at USC's Lotos yard last June.
