Baltijos Laivų Statykla
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AB Baltijos Laivų Statykla (or "Baltija" Shipbuilding Yard JSC) is a shipyard in Lithuania. The company, located in Klaipėda, is the only shipbuilding yard in the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) that supplies fleets and marine companies worldwide. Baltijos builds pontoons, barges, trawlers, floating docks, river ferries, dry cargo ships and container carriers. "Baltija" also provides ship-repair services.
The Soviet Ministry of Shipbuilding founded the yard in 1952, to build fishing boats. In 1958 the yard started building steel floating docks.
Denmark based Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd., part of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, took over the yard in April 1997 with a 98.5% ownership, and has invested €21 million Euros in Baltijos Laivo Statykla. The yard has started building tugboats since its take-over by Odense. Also, the yard builds grand blocks and outfitted superstructures, that are just part of container ships built in Germany and Denmark, and blocks for passenger liners built in Finland.
In 2003 it produced 32,000 tons of steel.
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