BALTEXPO 2025 International Maritime and Military Fair

World Shipbuilders' Reunion

Gdańsk University of Technology - June 21, 2025
World Shipbuilders' Reunion is a great meeting and a joint feast dedicated to all those involved in the beautiful process of creating a ship - regardless of their specialization.
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A great meeting of the shipbuilding industry in Gdańsk, Poland

Dear Shipbuilders! We are pleased to welcome you to the website of the World Shipbuilders' Congress. It will be regularly updated with new information as preparations for the Congress progress.

We have selected June 21, 2025, as the Congress date. In Poland, this will be the long June weekend associated with Corpus Christi, and several consecutive days off are ideal for planning a trip. This period marks the beginning of the vacation season, which can be convenient for planning a trip for participants from outside Gdańsk and, more broadly, beyond Poland.

The Congress will be held on the Gdańsk University of Technology campus. The official ceremony will take place in the Gdańsk University of Technology Auditorium in the Main Building of the university, while the shipbuilders' meeting/feast will take place on the grounds adjacent to the Shipbuilding Institute of Gdańsk University of Technology.

Unique Jubilee

On January 20, 2025, the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Shipbuilding at the Gdańsk University of Technology, PhD, DSc, Eng Mariusz Deja, the Director of the Office of the Employers' Association FORUM OKRĘTOWE Ireneusz Karaśkiewicz, and PhD, DSc, Eng Damian Bocheński, on behalf of the President of the Management Board of the Shipbuilding Brotherhood KOGA, Edmund Ledwoń, signed a letter of intent regarding the organization of the WORLD SHIPBUILDERS' REUNION combined with the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Shipbuilding Institute of the Gdańsk University of Technology.
This year marks 80 years since the establishment of the Faculty of Shipbuilding at the Gdańsk University of Technology, established by the Polish authorities. Since its inception, the Faculty has changed its name many times. In 2021, it was merged with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, resulting in the establishment of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Ship Technology. Despite the changes in name and place in the organizational structure of Gdańsk University of Technology, it has been the foundation of staff training for the shipbuilding industry in Poland for years.
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Who do we invite to the World Shipbuilders' Reunion?

On the occasion of the Jubilee, the shipbuilders community associated with the Association of Polish Maritime Industries FORUM OKRĘTOWE and the Ship Brotherhood KOGA came up with the idea of organizing a Reunion of graduates.
However, we want to significantly expand the format of our previous meetings and invite everyone involved in the beautiful process of shipbuilding – regardless of your specialization or the university where you earned it. The process of shipbuilding is a multidisciplinary endeavor.

Graduates of Gdańsk University of Technology will host the event, but we invite all shipbuilders from around the world.
If you work in a design office, shipyard, a company producing marine equipment or providing services to shipyards in Gdańsk, Gdynia, Szczecin, Sydney, New York or Hamburg – we invite you to our Reunion. And bring your colleagues from work with you.

In cooperation with the leading organizer of events in Gdańsk

The Congress partner is the Gdańsk International Fair – AMBEREXPO, and the Congress itself will be a side event of the BALTEXPO Trade Fair.

Why this organizational format?

We want to organize the event professionally, which is why we chose an organization with extensive experience and a professional staff to efficiently execute it. A dedicated team has already begun preparations.

Congress program - June 21, 2025

11:00
Registration of participants in the main building of the PG before the Aula - the first point of ticket accreditation
12:00
Official part - PG Main Auditorium

Welcome:

  • JM Rector of the Gdańsk University of Technology prof. dr hab. Eng. Krzysztof Wilde
  • Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Shipbuilding of the Gdańsk University of Technology dr hab. Eng. Mariusz Deja
  • Director of the Institute of Ship Construction prof. dr hab. Eng. Wojciech Litwin

"History of the Institute of PG Ships" - dr hab. Eng. Marek Dzida

"The time of innovators is coming" - the Korab Ship Technology Students

"International Marine and Military Fair Baltexpo - a development impulse for the Polish Ship Industry" - President of the Management Board of Amberexpo Andrzej Bojanowski

13:30
A joint photo of the shipowners in front of the Main Building of the Gdańsk University of Technology
from 1:45 p.m.
Participants move to the outdoor part and further registration of guests
14:00 - 21:00
Feast/outdoor meeting - Area of ​​the Shipbuilding Institute of Gdańsk
Shanty and folk music live performed by the Open Music Formation "Jony Roger" from Gdynia, and the continuation of the Feast program.

Near the stage will be a stand of the Sea Outbuilding, where you will be able to buy a book entitled "Infantry to the shipyard" by the former president of the Szczecin Shipyard Porta Holding SA Krzysztof Piotrowski.

During the feast, modern laboratories of the PG Ship Institute will be available for visiting - including a model pool. The guide guide will be the director of the Institute of Ships Construction prof. dr hab. Eng. Wojciech Litwin.

Voluntarians from the Korab Ship Technology Students' Circle will provide help in the organization of the meeting.

The atmosphere of the meeting will diversify the shanties performed by Johna Roger, and competitions with prizes. Sample of its capabilities below:

Thank you for participating in the 2025 edition!

Thank you for participating in the global Congress of Shipbuilders! Your presence was of great importance, and we hope that experience was inspiring for you.

We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the photos from the event to experience nice moments again and recall the most interesting moments of our meeting.

See you at the next edition and maybe also at this year's Baltexpo fair!

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Ireneusz Karaśkiewicz - Director of the Office of the Employers Association
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Feast program

The meeting will diversify the concert of shard music interrupted by short, but very interesting speeches of participants of our feast, including:

  • The president of Remontowa Shipbuilding Dariusz Jaguszewski will share the last information from the shipyard, which is a European leader in the production of low -emission ferries, but also carries out war contracts.
  • President of PGZ, MARKET MARCIN RYNGWELSKI will talk about the implementation of war contracts by this shipyard,
  • The president of DNV Polska Radosław Kubiszewski will talk about the artificial intelligence entering the ship industry,
  • President of the PRS Grzegorz Pettke will talk about the influence of European green order on shipping and ship industry,
  • Mr. Zygmunt Paszota - a member of the editorial committee of the book "Pioneers of the Gdańsk University of Technology" dedicated to people who in 1945-1949 built the Polish Gdańsk University of Technology from scratch, created laboratories, cathedrals and faculties - talks about this period,
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  • Krzysztof Piotrowski, former president of the Szczecin Shipyard Porta Holding SA will present a shocking backstage to the collapse of the shipyard, which coped best after the market of the Polish economy in 1989. It was a destructive blow to the Polish ship industry in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, from which he did not rise today.
See you at the meeting!
Ireneusz Karaśkiewicz - Director of the Office of the Employers' Association FORUM OKRĘTOWE
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