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State Policy towards the Shipbuilding Industry: The Case of Ferry Construction for Polish Shipowners
Abstract
The Polish state’s policy towards the shipbuilding industry after 2015 was aimed at its reconstruction, among other things, through the implementation of the “Batory” program. The purpose of the article is to examine the assumptions and implementation of one of the government projects, namely “Batory,” which assumed, among other things, innovation in the shipbuilding sector and stimulation of the construction of Polish vessels (passenger-car ferries for Polish shipowners — Polska Żegluga Morska (PŻM) and Polska Żegluga Bałtycka SA (PŻB SA)). In pursuit of the above research objective, answers to the following research questions were sought: (1) What was the condition of the shipbuilding industry in terms of ship production and the number of people employed? (2) What decisions did the government take with regard to the construction of ferries for Polish shipowners? (3) What factors influenced the failure of the “Batory” Project? In the research, the decision-analysis, comparative, dogmatic, and statistical methods were used. The article is based on legal acts, transcripts of the sittings of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, reports of the Supreme Chamber of Control (NIK), and the situation in the shipbuilding industry in Poland as described on the gospodarkamorska.pl website. It is therefore an analysis grounded in political science.
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shipbuilding industry, shipyards, the “Batory” program, government decisions, shipownerDetails
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