Stocznia Gdynia is a

shipyard A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are built and repaired. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance ...

, located in the

Port of Gdynia Port of Gdynia – the Poland, Polish seaport located on the western coast of Gdańsk Bay Baltic sea in Gdynia. Founded in 1926. In 2008 it was #2 in containers on the Baltic sea. The port adjoins Gdynia Naval Base with which it shares waterways ...

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. It was founded in 1922. Since 2009—in liquidation—it does not conduct production activities. In 1970, workers of Gdynia Shipyard rose up against the ruling Polish Communist Party. About 20 people died fighting with army and police in the streets of

Gdynia Gdynia ( ; ; german: Gdingen (currently), (1939–1945); csb, Gdiniô, , , ) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With a population of 243,918, it is the 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in th ...

during the

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. That had a great influence on creating the

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movement in 1980. In 1998 it bought the

Gdańsk Shipyard The Gdańsk Shipyard ( pl, Stocznia Gdańska, formerly Lenin Shipyard) is a large Polish shipyard, located in the city of Gdańsk. The yard gained international fame when Solidarity () was founded there in September 1980. It is situated on the w ...

. The current name is ''Stocznia Gdynia S.A.''

History

The shipyard was founded in 1922, initially building small coastal vessels. The construction of its first larger ship, , was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. During the German occupation, the shipyard was taken over by

Deutsche Werke Deutsche Werke was a German shipbuilding company that was founded in 1925 when Kaiserliche Werft Kiel and other shipyards were merged. It came as a result of the Treaty of Versailles after World War I that forced the German defense industry to shr ...

company and used to repair warships. Later in the war it built sections of Type XXI U-boats. After sustaining bombing damage during World War II the shipyard was rebuilt and expanded. In 1963, its first dry dock was finished, with dimensions 240 × 40 m. Second drydock with dimensions 380 × 70 m was finished in 1976.

The liquidation

Since March 2009, according to the so-called law "specustawa stoczniowa" was started the process of compensation Gdynia Shipyard, which meant the elimination of legal terms, the total sale of assets yard in the open tender and redundancies involving all employees. The money from the sale will be given to the repayment of the yard's creditors - public and private, and the obligations of public law, including ZUS. The last launch took place on 25 April 2009, and the dismissal of employees was conducted at the end of May 2009.

The search for an investor

In May 2009, the Stichting Particulier Fonds Greenrights bought key assets of the shipyards of Gdynia and Szczecin, and on June 17 received guarantees of the Arab Bank, Qatar Islamic Bank. The investor had to pay for the assets of Gdynia Shipyard more than 287 million PLN. On June 25, 2009, the

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration Ministry of the Interior and Administration ( pl, Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji) is an administration structure controlling main administration and security branches of the Polish government. After Parliamentary Election on 9 ...

issued a formal agreement on the sale of assets of Stocznia Gdynia SA, necessary for entities outside the

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. Polish Shipyards Company was registered by the Warsaw court on July 21. Its share capital amounted to 100 000 zł.

References

External links

Gdynia Shipyard website

Presentation The Solidarity Phenomenon
( PL, EN, DE, FR, ES, RU)
Gdynia Shipyard photos
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