Remontowa Shipbuilding is to build hydrographic ships for the Polish Navy

On Thursday, 28 May this year, at the Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. shipyard in Gdańsk, part of the Remontowa Holding group, a contract was signed for the delivery of two hydrographic vessels, together with logistical support packages.

In the presence of Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence, and Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka, Government Plenipotentiary for the Instrument for Enhancing Security, the contract was signed by Major General Artur Kuptel and Dariusz Jaguszewski, CEO of Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A.

The contract, which will be implemented as part of the programme codenamed HYDROGRAF, is worth PLN 1.5 billion.

– Remontowa Shipbuilding is our trusted and reliable partner. I am confident that this collaboration will also prove very successful for our next project. This contract represents an investment in safety, but also in creating new jobs, said Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz in Gdańsk.

The shipyard will build modern support vessels designed to acquire, collect and process geospatial data using specialist equipment.

The vessels will be capable of providing geographical, navigational, and hydrographic support to the Polish Armed Forces and allies, both within the country and abroad, and of exchanging data with equivalent NATO systems.

The total length of the vessel is approximately 60 m, and the maximum breadth is approximately 13 m. The range will be approximately 5,000 nautical miles, and the maximum speed will be approximately 13 knots.

The new vessels will replace two hydrographic support ships – ORP Heweliusz and ORP Arctowski, designed and built at Stocznia Północna (eng. Northern Shipyard, nowadays – Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A.) as sister ships in the series, operated in the Polish Navy since 1982 to the present day.