Szczecin Shipyard or New Szczecin Shipyard (Polish: Stocznia Szczecińska Nowa) was a shipyard

Shipyard

Shipyards and dockyards are places which repair and build ships. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which are sometimes associated more with initial...

 in northwestern city of Szczecin

Szczecin

Szczecin , is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of June 2009 the population was 406,427....

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. Formerly known as Stocznia Szczecińska Porta Holding S.A. (until 2002) or Stocznia im. Adolfa Warskiego

Adolf Warski

Adolf Warski, born Jerzy Adolf Warszawski , was a leader and theoretician of the Polish communist movement....

. The shipyard specialized in the construction of container ship

Container ship

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s, 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

Polish 1970 protests

The Polish 1970 protests were protests that occurred in northern Poland in December 1970. The protests were sparked by a sudden increase of prices of food and other everyday items...

, Solidarity).

It was the 5th biggest Shipyard in Europe and the 40th in the world.

Searching for an investor

In 2009, the Polish government contracted the sale of Szczecin Shipyard and Gdynia shipyards to QInvest of Qatar. However, by September the deal had fallen apart, and the government started looking for new investors. 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.