A new
shipbreaking yard is to be established in Gdynia, Poland, at the SMW Naval
Shipyard site in Gdynia, writes Jaroslaw Adamowski.
This latest initiative was
announced by Magdalena Smółka, receiver of the SMW yard, in a bid to
restructure the business. “We have undertaken these efforts to be able to
provide such services without unnecessary delay if we determine that there is a
big demand for [ship-breaking services],” she told local daily Dziennik
Bałtycki.
The receiver said that the
shipyard is currently applying for various business licences to widen the range
of marine services it is providing to customers.
Set up in May 1922 and
headquartered in Gdynia, SMW is the country’s oldest operating shipyard. The
company is owned by the Polish Treasury, and due to its continuing financial
woes it filed for bankruptcy in 2009. Despite this, the shipyard is currently
working on a number of shipbuilding and repair contracts.
In September 2013, Poland’s
Ministry of Defence awarded an order for three new mine destroyers and one
patrol vessel to a consortium led by two Polish shipyards, SMW and Remontowa
Shipbuilding in Gdańsk. The ships are scheduled to be completed in 2016.
Source:
motorship. 22 October 2013
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