Szczecin ship makers join forces
Nineteen companies signed the Letter of Intent regarding the incorporation of Szczecin Ship Consortium. The key objective of the Szczecin Industrial Park's initiative is to consolidate enterprise that will build ships in the former shipyard.
CEOs of Szczecin Industrial Park: Andrzej Strzeboński and Marek Bączkowski
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The working group in charge of organizing and incorporating the Szczecin Ship Consortium consists of Andrzej Strzeboński, CEO,SPP; Marek Bączkowski, Deputy CEO, SPP; Włodzimierz Zasadzki, Supervisory Board Chairman, SPP; Zbigniew Jagniątkowski, CEO, JPP Marine; Paweł Pietruszczak, CEO, Konstal and Andrzej Wójcicki, CEO, Navicor.
Autocomp Management, supplier of automated technologies for ships, and a design firm, are among signatories of the Letter of Intent. According to Andrzej Strzeboński, many other firms are interested in joining the Consortium. The list of signatories shall be open until 30 April. A draft consortium agreement shall be ready in the beginning of July.
“We have all resources necessary to build ships: infrastructure, human resources, designers and engineers. Even today we could start producing three to four ships a year", says Andrzej Strzeboński. He believes the first ship, actually a ferry for a Polish business group, may be commissioned in 2019. The Consortium would like to attract specialists who emigrated following bankruptcy of the shipyard.
“We can contract other ships and offshore products as well”, added Marek Bączkowski. According to Andrzej Strzeboński, certain financial tools are everything the Consortium needs from the State. “The current atmosphere helps restoring the shipyard business”, he said referring to the recent statement by Prime Minister Beata Szydło, made during her visit to Szczecin.
As already mentioned, on 5 April the Government approved the draft act on activation of the shipyard industry, among others assuming VAT exemption, opportunity to choose between regular CIT and a lump-sum one-percent tax on sales and an opportunity to classify shipyards as Special Economic Zones.
Szczecin Industrial Park is a company owned by Towarzystwo Finansowe Silesia, which manages the assets of former Stocznia Szczecińska Nowa, which include 45 hectares of land with key shipyard infrastructure: production halls, shipways, quay and gantry cranes. At present it has 65 lessees.
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