Gdańsk Shipyard

The shipyard Gdansk AG (Polish Gdańsk Shipyard Spółka Akcyjna ) is the successor to 1990 in the city's Lenin Shipyard.

Gdańsk Shipyard is one of the largest shipyards in Poland. It is located west of the Vistula Mündungsarms Martwa Wisła on the island of Ostrow and dates back to 1844, founded the Imperial shipyard ( from 1919 Gdansk shipyard and railroad shops ) and the branch shipyard, founded in 1890, the Schichau in Elbing. In 1950 it was renamed the Lenin Shipyard. This shipyard was in 1950 the first built after the Second World War in Poland ship, the Sołdek, from the stack.

The workers of the shipyard were considered since the 1960s as " rebellious " and obstinate. Back in the early 1970s were (illegal ) carried out strikes and work stoppages, which were often brutally suppressed by the authorities. Alone in the suppression of a strike in 1975 died according to official figures 80 shipyard workers. The electrician Lech Wałęsa belonged since the mid-1970s to the strike committees of the workers. Internationally became the shipyard than after the signing of the August Agreement in the Occupational Safety and Health Hall of the yard, the Solidarity trade union was founded in strike summer of 1980. The yard is considered as the nucleus of the democratic movement in Poland. The union leader Lech Walesa was elected on December 9, 1990 President of Poland.

Privatization

As part of the privatization of the former socialist state enterprises at the beginning of the 1990s, the yard was transformed into a corporation. Due to the privatization of the shipyard workforce of 15,760 employees (1978 ) was reduced to less than 3,000 ( in 2007).

After taking over the responsibilities of government in 2006, the Law and Justice party ( PiS), the anthropologist Andrzej Jaworski (who was also a member of this party ) to the line of the shipyard commissioned, though this had no experience in shipbuilding. Under pressure from the unions Jaworski told Danziger of Gdynia Shipyard and sold in December 2006, 5 % of the shares of the Gdansk shipyard at ISD Polska, a subsidiary of Ukrainian steel and metallurgical concern Industrialnyj Soyuz Donabass (ISD ) from the Donbas. In November 2007, ISD Polska took over newly issued shares for 300 million zloty and thus increased its shareholding to 83%. As ISD wanted to acquire the Gdynia Shipyard, asks the European Commission that the shipyards repay the state aid, decreasing their production or be privatized by the end of June 2008. Overall, the Polish government has promoted its shipyards with 5 billion zloty.

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Because of the importance of the yards for the development in Europe, they received the award European Heritage Label.