Shipyard holding may not be a bad idea after all

"No shipyard is saying that a holding is a bad thing," said Gdansk Shipyard spokesman Miroslaw Piotrowski. "Nobody builds ships alone. But we did not like the former government's ideas and the ways in which it wanted to impose them upon us." Gdansk Shipyard may play a large part in the possible consolidation process, as Gdynia Shipyard wants to purchase it, while Szczecin Shipyard and Gdansk Repair Shipyard have placed a bid for it together. "Szczecin Shipyard builds 20 to 22 ships annually," said Szczecin Shipyard spokesman Wojciech Sobecki. "Having only three ramps, we cannot increase output. If we owned the Gdansk Shipyard, we could build more ships there." (Prawo i Gospodarka, pages 1, 3)