Polish Merchant Navy

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The Polish Merchant Navy (

interwar period when the Second Polish Republic regained independence.[1]

During

After the war, the Polish Merchant Navy was controlled by the

People's Republic of Poland
and after 1989, by modern Poland.

Numbers

Total: 57 ships (1,000 GT or over) totaling 1,120,165 GT/1,799,569 tonnes deadweight (DWT)

Ships by type: bulk 50, cargo 2, chemical tanker 2, roll-on/roll-off 1, short-sea passenger 2 (1999 est.)

Major companies

Major Polish shipping companies include:

  • Polska Żegluga Morska
    (Polish Steamship Company, POLSTEAM)
  • Polskie Linie Oceaniczne
    (Polish Ocean Lines, POL)

See also

References

  1. ^
    OCLC 30672552
    .