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 Colleagues Shipbuilders! We are pleased to welcome you to the website of the World Shipbuilders' Reunion. It will be systematically updated with new information as the preparatory work for the Reunion progresses.

We have chosen June 21, 2025 as the date of the Reunion. In Poland, it will be a long June weekend, associated with the Corpus Christi holiday, and a few days off in a row are favorable to planning a trip. The beginning of the holiday season begins in this period, which can be convenient for planning an arrival for participants from outside Gdańsk and, more broadly, from outside Poland.

The meeting will be held on the Campus of the Gdańsk University of Technology. The official part will take place in the Aula of the Gdańsk University of Technology in the Main Building of the University, while the meeting/feast of shipbuilders will take place on the premises adjacent to the Shipbuilding Institute of the Gdańsk University of Technology.

Unique Jubilee

On January 20, 2025, the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Shipbuilding of the Gdańsk University of Technology, Prof. PhD, Dsc. Eng. Mariusz Deja, the Director of the Association of Polish Maritime Industries FORUM OKRĘTOWE Irek 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 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 formula of the previous Reunions and invite all those involved in the beautiful process of creating a ship – regardless of what specialization you have and at which university you obtained it. The process of creating a ship is a multidisciplinary undertaking.

Graduates of the Gdańsk University of Technology will be the hosts of the event, but we invite all shipbuilders from all over the world to it.
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 partner of the World Shipbuilders' Reunion i the Gdańsk International Fair – AMBEREXPO , and the Reunion itself will be an accompanying event of the BALTEXPO Fair.

Why did we choose such organizational formula?

We want to organize the event in a professional manner, which is why we have chosen an organization with extensive experience and professional staff to efficiently carry it out. A dedicated team has already begun preparatory work

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 13:45
the participants' transition to the outdoor part and further registration of guests
14:00 - 21:00
Biesiada/Outdoor meeting - region of the PG Ships Construction Institute
of Shant Music and Folk live in the performance of the open musical formation "Joni Roger" from Gdynia, and a further eating 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:

Enrollment for the event is ongoing!

Registration - and as soon as possible - is very important information for us. On the basis of the number of registered participants, we will know how to prepare gastronomic facilities during our feast, the number of seats, sanitary facilities, protection, medical care during the exit, etc.

We are prepared to organize an event for a large number of participants, but not unlimited - guests who register are guaranteed to participate in the congress. Therefore, a huge request not to put it on for later.

When preparing the event, we also bear some costs that we need to cover: stage, musical setting, renting equipment: tables, seating places, tents, sanitary facilities, protection, medical care, etc., which is why we introduced a symbolic registration fee for participating in the congress:

  • PLN 32 - promotional price until May 31, 2025.
  • 53 PLN - standard price of the ticket purchase from June 1 
  • PLN 11 - a ticket for pensioners and people unemployed

If you have decided to participate in the global Congress of Shipbuilders, register now.

Do not postpone registration for later. This will help us in the efficient organization of the congress.

Do you have questions? Contact the event coordinator at the e-mail address:
sylwia.wasilewska@amberexpo.pl
See you at the meeting!
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
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