GDANSK SHIPYARD HELPS BUILD ‘GREEN’ ENERGY FUTURE
September 5th, 2011
BY MARK ROWE and MJ DESCHAMPS
POLAND'S historic Gdansk Shipyard, which has long been the site of construction of solid steel structures and shipbuilding, is now working towards becoming the leading steel structure solutions supplier for onshore and offshore wind projects in Europe.
The Gdansk Shipyard (Stocznia Gdansk) is now manufacturing 270-tonne, 328-feet turbines for wind power plants. Thomas Gaardbo, vice president of a shipyard sister company GSG Towers (responsible for the sale of the structures) said that the wind turbines are being exported and ...
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