Sber offered to go to new, alternative lending, tools for financing the fishing industry – long-term leasing, in which the quota will be tied to a specific vessel. About this at the session “Investkwalls 2.0: the path to intensive development” in the framework of WEF-2021, Sberbank’s senior vice president Vladimir Sitnov said.
According to him, the relevance of the topic is due to the five-liter of the mechanism of investment quotas for fish catch. During this time, the volume of investments of Russian fishing companies increased almost 5 times.
In turn, the deputy head of the Ministry of Development of the Far East and the Arctic Anatoly Bardokov spoke about the success of the fishing industry in the region in recent years – hundreds of billions of rubles of investments, 24 fish processing plant, 11 of which have already been commissioned, 3 thousand new jobs, an increase in deep recycling almost twice from 16 to 30 percent, 96 contracts for the construction of fish and corrupting ships are concluded.
The first stage of investment books on fish catch, according to Sittyov, changed the financial landscape for the entire banking community – this can be compared with the transition of the construction industry on an escrow account. As a result, the cumulative loan portfolio according to the central bank estimates almost three times. “Sber in essence, with all fishermen and shipyards sat in one boat. Investments of Sberbank at the end of 2020 amounted to about 250 billion rubles – 85 percent of the total. Therefore, everything that is happening with quotas and discussing these issues is very sensitive to banks. “,” Stressed the Senior Vice President of Sber. He also noted that shipbuilders will not be able to continue to build themselves at a loss for too long, therefore, at some point of the court they will simply be found.
“relative to the regulator plans on the second stage – we are of course support them, but with one question: what will happen next? The next 20 percent we can calculate how it will fall on the economy of fishermen and related industries. In the second stage as an investor, as Financial Institute, we will also come with everyone, “- promised Sitnov.