BCO, whose shares are controlled by Bilfinger, a German member of the ARP S.A. FIZ MARS Group and Crist, the Gdynia shipyard, will invest over PLN 350 million in a one of the state-of-the-art plants manufacturing offshore constructions. With its target headcount of 580 FTEs, the entity will start operations in 2015.

‘BCE is the largest individual investment project carried out by our Group,' says Joachim Enenkel, Member of the Management Board of Bilfinger, emphasizing the project importance.

Every year the plant will produce ca. 50 jacket foundations with the weight of 700-900 tons each. Foundations will be manufactured in newly built facilities: a production hall with the area of 30,000 m2 and a painting hall of 4,200 m2. The target clients are German and British buyers.

The investment project is located on the land purchased from the Gryfia shipyard owned by MARS FIZ. Thanks to the initiative of ARP S.A. the land has been included in the Szczecin subzone of EURO-PARK MIELEC Special Economic Zone managed by ARP S.A. The investment project may be carried out along with two other initiatives, construction of a bridge connecting Gryfia with the mainland being one of them.

The other related project is aimed at solving the problem of overhead transmission lines hanging low across the Odra river, which is the transportation channel for the plant. The bridge will be constructed by MARS Most Brdowski, a SPV established by MARS FIZ. After project completion in 2015 the bridge will be handed to over to the city of Szczecin.

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