Customer Magazine ISSUE 4 (31) 2019 In the Year 2020 let us be part of your success! Remontowa Wind-assisted The white frigate revisits its past ship in the dock DryDock recapiculates how shiprepair Scandlines hybryd ferry The legendary Polish tall ship industry has changed over 40 years to be equipped with a rotor sail underwent renovation in magazine Page 3 Page 7 Page 15 editorial contents Customer Magazine ISSUE 4 (31) 2019 It was a good In the Year 2020 year, the best let us be part of your success! Remontowa Wind-assisted The white frigate revisits its past ship in the dock DryDock recapiculates how shiprepair Scandlines hybryd ferry The legendary Polish tall ship industry has changed over 40 years to be equipped with a rotor sail underwent renovation is yet to come… in magazine Page 3 Page 7 Page 15 In December 2019, for a couple world. In a series of articles they 3 Remontowa revisits of days there were as many as 25 are looking at how the shiprepair the past… ships of various types being ser- business has changed over the … in the 40th anniversary viced in the same time at Remon- last 40 years. special edition of DryDock towa SA. Among them were i.a.: Among the five chosen yards tankers, bulk carriers, chemical in the world, one of the articles 7 Wind-assisted ships carriers, fishing vessels, Ro-Ro features Remontowa Shiprepair The Scandlines’ hybrid ferries ships, reefer vessels, as well as Yard in Gdansk, which - as we ready for further service car-passenger ferries. A good can read in the editor’s comment forecast for the winter season at - „has seen probably the biggest 9 The sixth visit the shipyard! changes”. of Bretagne It’s worth emphasising, that ac- The article shows how the yard, A successful start cording to Clarksons Research from a typical in our part of Eu- of the winter ferry season World Fleet Register, as of 29th rope state-owned communist November 2019, Remonto- workplace has become a mod- 11 A special survey wa Shiprepair Yard was ranked ern, private-owned company able the 7th in the world and the 1st of Finnfellow to compete on the global market. An extended scope of works among non-Chinese shipyards in We have stressed the article in and a short deadline terms of the amount of scrubbers retrotits - historical and sched- this issue of our magazine. uled. No doubt, that we owe our devel- 12 Express repair So far, the shipyard has retrofit- opment and present market posi- of B-Gas Venus ted more than 50 ships with over tion to shipowners. We are proud Gas carriers managed 100 Exhaust Gas Cleaning Sys- to be a member of the interna- by V.Ships tems. In 2019 we have installed tional maritime community and a scrubbers on 10 ships. At the end reliable partner for the shipown- 13 The Trans Iberia of 2019 they were installed on ers worldwide. with BWT system three chemical tankers, a com- To all our esteemed Clients and We retrofit SeaTrans’ bined/ro-ro container ship and a Friends - we wish you Happy chemical tankers car-passenger ferry. Holidays, full of love, joy and In turn, in 2019 Remontowa SA peace. May the New Year bring 14 Weser Stahl has also retrofitted 21 ships with you a spark of good fortune with new thrusters Ballast Water Treatment sys- needed to complete all your en- Special surveys of self tems. deavours successfully. In the discharging bulk carriers In December 2019 the DryDock year 2020 let us be part of your Magazine, this year celebrating success! 15 The white frigate its 40 anniversary, published a went to the dock special supplement dedicated to Grzegorz Landowski The legendary Polish tall ship the shiprepair industry across the Editor-in-Chief underwent renovation Remontowa Ship Repair News is a customer magazine of Remontowa Shiprepair Yard, member of Remontowa Holding SA Publisher: PORTALMORSKI.PL Ltd., Na Ostrowiu 1, 80-958 Gdańsk, Poland. Editor-in-Chief: Grzegorz Landowski. Phone: +48 58 307 17 90, e-mail: [email protected] The content of the magazine (with the exception of photos) may by reproduced provided the source. 2 ISSUE 4(31) 2019 media remontowa ship repair news Piotr Soyka, the owner and chairman of the Remontowa Holding group in the 1990’ at the wheel of the tall ship Krusenstern repaired at that time in the yard. Photo: Archiv/Remontowa SA At the end of the 1970s there were more In the 40th anniversary than 5000 people employed directly by special edition of DryDock… the yard. In 1986 the shipyard purchased an even larger dock with lifting capacity 33 000 tonnes. The dock (no. 6) was subsequently converted at the yard which increased its Remontowa lifting capacity to 36 000 tonnes and 135 000 dwt. It has enabled the company to drydock ships up to 297m long and 44,04m wide. In 2006 one of the docks (no. 3) was revisits the past also enlarged and is now able to accomo- date the vessels of LOA 200m and clear Remontowa Shiprepair Yard SA is among three breadth of 35m. Nowadays Remontowa shipyards chosen by DryDock to „revisit their past”, operates six floating docks. as we can learn from the front cover of the magazine. In the last couple of years the yard pur- chased two semi-submersible barges with DryDock, the world’s leading magazine for place to a private enterprise” illustrating lifting capacity of up to 24 000 and 25 000 ship repair, maintenance and conversion how Remontowa has developed since the tonnes for docking offshore platforms is celebrating its 40th anniversary. In the 1970s until now. and other heavy objects. Additional in- December 2019 special issue a number of … vestments in technology have increased Face the Facts’ articles from Europe, The Fourty years ago Remontowa Shiprepair technical and manufacturing capacities in- Middle East, The Americas and Africa has Yard occupied the same location in Gdan- cluding facilities required for Exhaust gas been published. The articles look at how sk. In 1979 the shipyard operated five cleaning systems (scrubbers) and BWT sys- the shiprepair industry has changed over floating docks. The largest one had lifting tems. the last 40 years. capacity 25 000 tonnes and docking ca- In the 1970s, the shipyard carried out We are presenting some excerpts from pacity 85 000 dwt. It was the biggest facil- mainly repairs of bulk carriers, oil tankers, the article: „From a communist work- ity for drydocking in Poland at that time. general cargo vessels, ro-pax ferries, scien- customermagazine 3 media tific research vessels, fishing trawlers and as well as shuttle tankers, PSVs and AHTS he remained for 20 years, he led the yard large fish factory vessels. vessels. through a complete reorganisation and re- Today Remontowa SA can host virtually 40 years ago the shipyard as a typical structurisation to privatisation in 2001. every type of a ship or offshore structure communist workplace entirely owned by He also started to form a capital group that can enter the Baltic (through the Dan- the state wasn’t operating on the free based around the shipyard and today ish Straits). Bulkers, container ships, tank- market. The shipyard had dealt main- Remontowa is the largest of more than ers, car carriers, Con-Ro and Ro-Ro ships, ly with fleets of state-owned shipowners 20 companies comprising the Remontowa car-passenger ferries, project cargo ships, from the Eastern Bloc for almost 40 years Holding group, led by its chairman and gas carriers (both LGP or LNG) are serviced before the political transformation in Po- co-owner Piotr Soyka. here. land began. In 1989 a centrally planned In the past the shipyard dealt mainly with The yard also repairs specialized units economy collapsed and the shipyard was more simple jobs – class surveys, overhauls, and naval ships - dredgers, scientific re- on the verge of bankruptcy. drydockings on a daily basis. Having more search vessels, diving support vessels, fall- The appointment of Piotr Soyka, who than 5000 permanent employees and quite pipe vessels, cable lay vessels, offshore won a competition for the post of a new modern facilities the yard was able to car- wind support vessels. Other frequent General Director in 1989 was the catalyst ry out large steelworks for which it was well visitors are offshore units – drilling, ex- for creating the vision of what Remon- suited. However, Remontowa was quite in- traction, production, accommodation, towa is today. First as the Director, and novative and placed great emphasis on the semi-submersible, and jack-up platforms later as the Chairman of the Board where technical side of engineering. In the 1960s Remontowa today. Photo: Marcin Koszałka 4 ISSUE 4(31) 2019 remontowa ship repair news and 1970s the yard built eight floating docks of which three ones were exported to Syr- ia, Bulgaria and Sweden, the latter being the largest in Europe at that time. We definitely carry out more complex works now. Remontowa can provide a full package for shipowners. Complex solu- tions start from consultancy and include a design, entire project implementation, procurement and installation in one place. Good example is scrubber retrofits. All types of the systems are sold at the ship- yard, from open-loop systems to closed- loop and hybrids. Everything is done at the Remontowa in the 1970’. Photo: Archiv/Remontowa SA customermagazine 5 media The front cover of the DryDock 40th Anniversary Special suplement in which some leading ship repair companies worldwide revisit their past… The pages 28 and 29 have been dedicated to the story of Remontowa… yard, including the initial 3D laser scan- ning, design of the system, supply, assem- bly and delivery to the owner.