Will Aker sail into the Gdańsk shipyard and take it over?

The state plans to merge it with several other shipyards and create a sector corporation, but it simultaneously is considering inviting an investor. "I hope to receive a letter of intent from one of large European shipyard groups interested in capital engagement in SG," said Arkadiusz Krężel, the president of the Industrial Development Agency (ARP). Although the name of the potential investor was not revealed, sector analysts claim that it might be Norway's Aker. "The representatives of Aker visited the shipyard several times. We are not discrediting any of the investors. We are afraid though that Aker is not planning on building ships here. Norway is not in the EU. It has its own aid system for the sector," commented Roman Gałęzewski, the head of the SG GSG Solidarity. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 4)