2 September 2005
Editorial SHIPBUILDING BALTEXPO - SPECIAL ISSUE September 2005 PUBLISHER Shipbuilding and Shipping Ltd. Na Ostrowiu 1 Street 80-958 Gdañsk, Poland www.okretownictwo.pl ACCOUNT: ING Bank PL 1050 1764 1000 0018 0203 7869 Chairman Editor-in-Chief: Grzegorz Landowski Phone +48 58 307 12 49 Grzegorz.Landowski@okretownictwo.pl Subscription and advertisement: Aleksandra Dylejko Phone +48 58 307 15 54 Aleksandra.Dylejko@okretownictwo.pl Secretary Office: Phone: +48 58 307 17 70 Fax +48 58 307 12 56 www.okretownictwo.pl Contributing authors: Miros³aw Jasiñski Grzegorz Landowski Piotr Stareñczak Jan Paszkowski Bart³omiej Pomierski Stanis³aw Szymczak Adam Œmigielski Pictures: Jakub Bogucki Piotr Stareñczak Kazimierz Gliszczyñski Northern Shipyard Remontowa S.A. Royal Arctic Line A/S Szczecin New Shipyard Adam WoŸniczka Design and DTP: S³awomir W³odarczyk Printing House: Spartan Poleska Street 25, 81-321 Gdynia Poland September 2005 Significant Ships According to well-informed sources, at the end of 2004 the number of ships of the commercial fleet worldwide amounted to 89 960 totaling 633,3 million CGT. The average age of ships came to 22 years. At the same time, the world order book reached another all-time record of more than 90 million CGT. In 2004, shipyards worldwide delivered 1729 vessels, amounting to 25,5 million CGT, more than three quarters of which were produced by Asian shipbuilders. On the other hand, European yards recorded the strongest increase in new orders from 4 million CGT in 2003 to 6,8 million CGT in 2004. In the same year Polish yards had new orders for 51 ships totaling 1 088 744 CGT, 34 of which were container ships. In 2004, the Polish yards delivered 25 ships of 448 684 CGT and the value of 754,7 million USD. Two of them were really significant. The RINA list of “Significant Ships of the Year 2004” mentioned the arctic container carrier Mary Arctica of Remontowa Group (see on page 7), and the multipurpose carrier Suomigracht (look at page 44) of Szczecin New Shipyard. At the end of 2004, the total portfolio of all Polish yards consisted of 95 ships of 2 112 617 CGT, and the contract value of 3,620 million USD. However, a certain number of ships had been ordered two or three years ago. According to World Shipyard Monitor, at the end of March 2005, there were 4394 ships of the total of 230,7 million dwt ordered worldwide. At the same time, the total order book of Polish yards amounted to 96 ships of 2 024 983 CGT and the value of USD 3659,9 million. Most orders have been placed with Gdynia Shipyard Group and Szczecin New Shipyard, however world sources (among them CESA) have also noticed an increasing role of Remontowa Group (Gdañsk Shiprepair Yard Remontowa and it’s subsidiary Northern Shipyard) in the Polish shipbuilding. „Polish-built Ships” is our presentation of some units ordered and delivered by the main Polish yards in 2004 and 2005, as well as some ships that are currently being under construction. Of course, we have not described all the ships coming from Polish yards, focusing our attention on completely equipped vessels only. In case of long series amounting from several to a dozen or so ships of one type we do not describe each particular vessel, unless we meet a prototype. Despite our efforts, a few yards refused to make technical data of some ships available to us. Finally, in some cases we do not even mention potential new orders that are still being negotiated. And what is more, this presentation is our choice. The selection of ships and projects that are, I believe, most significant for the Polish shipbuilding. GrzegorzLandowski@okretownictwo.pl 3