KIEV, May 6 – Russia's OJSC United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) is considering merging with two Ukrainian companies - Zorya-Mashproekt gas turbine scientific and industrial complex (Mykolaiv) and OJSC Feodosiya More Shipyard, according to the company's president Roman Trotsenko.

"Zorya-Mashproekt is a very strong turbine plant, which can produce gas turbines. More is a large shipyard that produces ships from light metal alloys and aluminum. The two companies are state companies..., which suffer difficulties with finding work, and we could settle the issue if the companies integrate with the USC," reads a posting on the Russian government's Web site, citing Trotsenko, who was speaking at a meeting with Russian Prume Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.