Baltijos laivų statykla

AB Baltijos laivų statykla or "Baltija" Shipbuilding Yard JSC is a shipyard in Lithuania. The company, located in Klaipėda, is the only shipbuilding yard in the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) that supplies fleets and marine companies worldwide. Baltijos laivų statykla builds pontoons, barges, trawlers, floating docks, river ferries, dry cargo ships and container carriers. "Baltija" also provides ship-repair services.

The Soviet Ministry of Shipbuilding founded the yard in 1952, to build fishing boats. In 1958 the yard started building steel floating docks. In 1992 the government of Lithuania held 96% of the shares, which were sold to Demark-based Odense Steel Shipyard in April 1997. Odense Steel Shipyard, part of the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group, now holds 99.18% percent of the shares.

The parent has invested €21 million in Baltijos laivų statykla. The yard has started building tugboats since its take-over by Odense. Also, the yard builds grand blocks and outfitted superstructures, that are just part of container ships built in Germany and Denmark, and blocks for passenger liners built in Finland.

The company has grown steadily, in 1998 it produced 18,000 tons of steel for ship production, that grew to 32,000 tons in 2003, and was 55,400 tons in 2006. Employment peaked in 1999, at over 1800, and is now between 1500 and 1600.

External links

* [http://www.baltijos.lt/en/index.html Baltija website]