September 26th, 20180Poland is to build a short canal so that ships leaving from one of its ports will no longer need to transit Russian waters. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice, said this week the 1 km long canal cutting through the Vistula lagoon in the northeast of the country to the Baltic Sea will show Poland’s...
January 16th, 20180The European Commission yesterday opened an investigation into tax incentives for shipyards in Poland. The commission believes Warsaw’s flat-rate tax on sales for yards could be construed as operating aid, something that is illegal within the EU. In September 2016, Poland adopted a law giving shipyards operating in Poland an option to...
Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione, once public ferry operator Tirrenia and now owned by Moby, has sold ro-ro vessel Puglia to Polish shipping company Unity Line. The Milan-based group officially announced on the Luxembourg stock exchange that the vessel had been “sold to a foreign purchaser” and will net is around €15m...
July 25th, 20170A Polish captain hanged himself midway through a transatlantic voyage from New York to Tilbury in the UK, a British inquest heard yesterday. The 59-year-old took over as captain of the on May 6. He was found by a crew member hanging on May 13, when the ship was halfway across the Atlantic ocean. No note was found. The Santa...
July 26th, 20160The charity Apostleship of the Sea (AoS) has reported how it stepped in in Poland to assist 59 abandoned Russian seafarers who were left in the lurch after a shipowner went bankrupt. The men were crew members of three ships - Vyritsa, Zarechensk and Braschaat. They learnt about their plight while they were out at sea. Shipping...
July 14th, 20160The Polish government is pushing ahead with a major revamp of its shipbuilding sector. The minister of development Mateusz Morawiecki and the minister of maritime economy and inland navigation, Marek Gróbarczyk, held a press conference at the former Szczecin shipyard in northwest Poland yesterday where they outlined plans to invest...
May 24th, 20161An investigation by Vice has shone light on the employment of North Korean workers in "forced labour" conditions at the Crist and Nauta shipyards in Poland, with their wages funding the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) regime. The publication's investigation began when a worker was killed after suffering 95% burns when...
February 25th, 20160The Polish government is pushing ahead with plans to try and revitalise the nation’s shipyards. The Ministry of Development is trying to get Polish yards, which tend to be centred around the Baltic cities of Gdynia and Gdansk, to focus on passenger ferries and gas tankers. It forms part of a greater overall economic plan by the new...
November 28th, 20150Poland’s government has confirmed that Polish-owned general cargo vessel was hijacked by pirates off the Nigerian coast on Friday, with five of the 16 crew members abducted by the pirates. The ship was headed to the port of Onne in Nigeria from Antwerp, when the armed pirates struck, with 11 of the crew escaping harm by barricading...
November 25th, 20150Estonian authorities are investigating a bribery scandal linking Polish shipbuilders with the Port of Tallinn. The Estonian Prosecutor General's Office has filed allegationss against two managers of a Polish shipbuilding company as part of a corruption investigation relating to the state owned company Port of Tallinn. "Two people...
