Russia's new Zvezda shipyard will expand its orderbook to between 120 and 130 vessels.

This is according to Kirill Molodtsov, assistant to Russia's presidential chief of staff, who was quoted by PortNews.

Yard owner Rosneft said in January that the yard has orders for 37 vessels so far.

It revealed orders for 19 more tankers and offshore ships that were previously unreported.

Rosneft has ordered 26 vessels itself, including 12 shuttle tankers of Arc6 and Arc7 class.

Only one of these contracts - for a 69,000-dwt ship - had been hitherto reported.

In addition, it has 10 114,000-dwt aframaxes on order there, against five that were previously reported.

The company also has four multi-functional ice-class supply ships being built at Zvezda, double the number declared before now.

It was also revealed that Gazprom has ordered three supply vessels, a passenger unit for platform crews and one multi-functional ship, one more than previously reported.

Rosmorport has contracted a shallow-draft icebreaker, and holds options for three more of a similar design, which have not been included in the total.

Russian tanker giant Sovcomflot has two aframaxes and three MR tankers contracted at Zvezda, plus a new LNG carrier for the Arctic 2 LNG project.

All vessels are due between this year and 2024.

Domestic gas producer Novatek has reportedly reserved slots at the yard for up to 15 LNG carriers for Arctic LNG 2.