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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.1 - Building of ships and boats
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 July 2012
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
On 5 July 2012, Stocznia Gdańsk (Gdańsk Shipyard) announced plans to create 600 workplaces by the end of 2013. The company declared to hire 300 people in 2012 and another 300 in 2013. The shipyard is mainly looking for welders and fitters.
Arkadiusz Aszyk, a board member of Stocznia Gdańsk, revealed the company plans to be the best-paying employer in the region as well as in the sector. Aszyk emphasized the company was to rely more on the local workforce instead of foreign subcontractors, as it is at present.
Currently the company employs 1700 people. Stocznia Gdańsk specializes in shipbuilding, production of wind farms and other steel constructions.
Sources
5 July 2012: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł ()
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Stocznia Gdańsk, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 73848, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73848.
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