| Industry | Shipbuilding |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1948 (as Stocznia Szczecińska) |
| Headquarters | Szczecin, Poland |
| Services | Shipbuilding Ship repair |
| Website | www.ssn.pl |
Szczecin Shipyard or New Szczecin Shipyard (Polish: Stocznia Szczecińska Nowa) was a shipyard in northwestern city of Szczecin, Poland. Formerly known as Stocznia Szczecińska Porta Holding S.A. (until 2002) or Stocznia im. Adolfa Warskiego. The shipyard specialized in the construction of container ships, chemicals transport ships, multi-purpose ships and Con-Ro ships. It employs about 4400 people, and the executive director is Andrzej Markowski. It has the ISO 9001:2000 certificate.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the shipyard was one of the most important centers of anticommunist resistance in Poland (see: Polish 1970 protests, Solidarity).
It was the 5th biggest Shipyard in Europe and the 40th in the world.
In 2009, the Polish government contracted the sale of Szczecin Shipyard and Gdynia shipyards to QInvest of Qatar.[1] However, by September the deal had fallen apart, and the government started looking for new investors.[2] Things did not work out however, and following a rift with the EU over unfair state funding amounting to Euro 1.3 billion, the Polish Government were asked to reduce capacity at both sites or repay the funding.[3]