It has been said today that a shipbuilding industry in Mykolayiv has a bright past but has no future. A staff of Mykolayiv Shipbuilding and Fleet Museum doesn’t agree with this statement and decided to demonstrate a potential of this industry using effectively working Mykolayiv companies as an example.
Among the numerous exhibits there were models of already built and newly designed vessels of Mykolayiv shipbuilding companies,  drawings and pictures, samples of the equipment and work clothes etc.  
Moreover, the participants had an opportunity to get acquainted and to communicate with the representatives of such companies who, in their turn, told about the sectoral strategy and their new projects.
Andriy Volik, NIBULON’s deputy general director of construction, fleet operation and navigation safety,  introducing the shipbuilding and repair yard’s stand, remarked that exactly such companies as NIBULON create not only a modern shipbuilding history but also give every reason to believe that it has a future.   
“Within only few years NIBULON shipbuilding yard built 2 tugs of the POSS-115 project, 3 tugs of the 121 project, 3 non-self-propelled vessels of the NBL-91 project, 1 non-self-propelled floating crane of the C14938 project,” informed Andriy Volik. “We plan to construct 6 non-self-propelled vessels of the В2000 project in 2016. These vessels are specially designed for operation on the Southern Bug River. We actively implement the investment project to revive the river as the main navigable highway of the South of Ukraine. Still it is not the time to rest. Moreover, a production program represents one hundred percent of the shipyard’s workload for the next few years”.
The Deputy General Director of Construction, Fleet Operation and Navigation Safety added that today the company not only builds complete vessels but also reconstructs and modernizes the existing capacities as per the conceptual design of Norwegian company TTS. “The company is going to build 2 absolutely new modern workshops of shot-blasting and metal-working. The company also looks forward to building passenger vessels that will sail over the Dnipro and the Southern Bug Rivers,” pointed out Andriy Volik.
Thus, by its own example NIBULON proves that even under such complicated conditions the Ukrainian shipbuilding industry not only started the process of its formation but also has perspectives in future.