Szczecin Shipyard or New Szczecin Shipyard (Polish: ''Stocznia Szczecińska Nowa'') was a

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in the city of

Szczecin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s ...

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. Formerly known as ''Stocznia Szczecińska Porta Holding S.A.'' (until 2002) or ''Stocznia im. Adolfa Warskiego''. The shipyard specialized in the construction of

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s and ConRo ships. It employed about 4400 people, and the executive director was Andrzej Markowski. It was

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:2000 certified.

History

It was founded in the aftermath of World War II, when the German port of

Stettin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major se ...

was taken over by Poland and renamed

. The state-owned shipyard then inherited the assets of the former German shipbuilding giant

AG Vulcan Stettin Aktien-Gesellschaft Vulcan Stettin (short AG Vulcan Stettin) was a German shipbuilding and locomotive building company. Founded in 1851, it was located near the former eastern German city of Stettin, today Polish Szczecin. Because of the limited ...

. In the 1970s and 1980s, the shipyard was one of the most important centers of anticommunist resistance in Poland (see:

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). It was the 5th biggest shipyard in Europe and the 40th in the world. In 2009, the Polish government contracted the sale of Szczecin Shipyard and Gdynia shipyards to QInvest of Qatar. However, by September the deal fell apart, and the government started looking for new investors.

Szczecin Industrial Park

Since 2009, Szczecin Industrial Park (Stocznia Szczecińska) has been created on the site of the former Szczecin Shipyard in the north-east of

. The 45-hectare site, about two kilometres from the city centre is well equipped shipbuilding and ship repair, with 3 slipways (Wulkan Nowy, Odra Nowa and Wulkan Stary), 750 m of quays, 80 000 sqm of prefabrication yards and over 10 ha of warehouses. The assets are owned by MARS Closed Investment Fund.

The type and number of units produced until 1998

References

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