Proces prywatyzacji Stoczni Szczecińskiej Nowa Sp. z o.o. w latach 2004–2009
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2012
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM
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Between 2004 and 2009, Stocznia Szczeciñska Nowa Sp. z o.o. (SSN) was one of the largest
state-owned Polish companies in the shipyard sector. The privatization of the shipyard was
a pivotal element of the economic plans put forward by the Governments of Marek Belka,
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Jaros³aw Kaczyñski and Donald Tusk. However, this postulate
was not implemented by their respective Cabinets. The difficulties in privatizing the shipyard
were due to a change in the policy towards the shipbuilding industry, delays in preparing economic
plans which followed from the fact that the European Commission (EC) did not accept
the restructuring plans made by the companies interested in taking over the property and the
assets of the shipyard, and also because the authorities responsible for finding investors were
incompetent in doing so.
Marek Belka’s government plan to consolidate the shipbuilding industry, aimed at selling all
the property and assets of SSN within the framework of the Corporation of Polish Shipyards,
was rejected by the government of Marcinkiewicz. The guidelines for privatizing the shipbuilding
industry promised by the Marcinkiewicz government were never formulated or defined for
the sector. The program was later accepted by the Kaczyñski Government, which despite earlier
promises failed to privatize the shipyard. Donald Tusk’s Cabinet was not able to live up to the
challenges connected with the shipyard industry crisis. Negotiations between the Polish Government
and Amber Sp. z o.o. over the privatization plan for the shipyard failed.
The shipyard’s restructuring plan produced by Mostostal Chojnice SA was not accepted
by the EC. The Tusk government failed to find an investor in the public tenders announced for
the property and assets of the shipyard – a Qatar company withdrew its initial proposal to buy
the shipyard and there were no other investors willing to take it over. This was the main reason
for the ensuing bankruptcy of the Szczecin shipyard.
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Przegląd Politologiczny, nr 4/2012, s. 243-256.