Polsteam
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| Polsteam | |
| state-owned enterprise | |
| Industry | Shipping |
| Founded | 2 January 1951 |
| Headquarters | Szczecin, Poland |
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Area served
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Global |
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Key people
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Paweł Szynkaruk (CEO) |
| Subsidiaries | Unity Line |
| Website | polsteam |
Polska Żegluga Morska known as Polsteam or PŻM, is a cargo ship operator based in Szczecin, Poland. Polsteam is a state-owned enterprise with around 3,000 employees.
Polsteam was founded in 1951, nationalizing the assets of two Polish pre-WWII marine freight companies (Gdynia–Ameryka Linie Żeglugowe and Żegluga Polska), making it the oldest Polish cargo ship operator in existence.
Initially, Polsteam's fleet comprised 11 ships of joint carrying capacity of approx 27,000 DWT. Among those ships there were: four of the so-called. French ships, which were steamers built in 1926 in French shipyard of Chantiers Navals Francais in Blainville: SS Wieluń, SS Kraków, SS Toruń, SS Poznań, the oldest of the acquired ships was SS Narocz (2,520 DWT) built in 1915 in Great Britain, SS Narew (310 DWT) a small coaster built in 1944 in Germany and SS Elbląg (1,699 DWT) built in 1944. Four ships of B-30 series, constructed in 1949 in Gdańsk Shipyard: SS Sołdek (first ship in the post-WWII history of the Polish shipbuilding industry), SS Jedność Robotnicza, SS Pstrowski and SS Brygada Makowskiego (built in 1950).
In early years of Polsteam's existence, the ship owner's vessels navigated on short and midrange sea routes (i.e. the Baltic Sea, North Sea and Mediterranean Sea). During the course of the first five years, they carried coal, wood, and iron ore. 80-90% of shipping involved tramping services and although the ship operator had three lines since 1951 namely: Szczecin - , Szczecin - London - Rouen and Szczecin - Hamburg - Rotterdam - Antwerp.
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