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FeedsHome: Issue 1 2010 › Building reputations
Building reputations
29/01/2010 | Channel: Manufacturing, Engineering, Shipping
After securing multiple awards for innovation in recent years, SC Western Shipyard Group looks to continue promoting itself on the global scale
The Lithuanian-based SC Western Shipyard Group is one of the largest corporations in the country and specialises in shipbuilding, ship repair and modification, port stevedoring and warehousing services, metal construction production, metal processing, hot galvanisation, procurement and transport services.
The group was established in 1969 and is today comprised of 22 individual specialist companies, successfully establishing itself as a key player in the ferry, multi-purpose and offshore shipbuilding industry. It is also the first industrial shipping company in the Baltic region engaged in the construction of facilities that utilise renewable energy. All companies within the SC Western Shipyard Group are based within a 50-hectare area but much of its business is conducted with companies from all over the globe, with approximately 85 per cent of its production being exported from any one of its five floating docks.
In June 2007 the SC Western Shipyard Group and the Norwegian company, Fiskerstrand Verft AS, signed an agreement for the promotion of a new company, Fiskerstrand BLRT AS, that will be engaged in the preparation of ship building conception, marketing and project management. Both companies, SC Western Shipyard Group and Fiskerstrand Verft AS, will each be in possession of 50 per cent of company shares. Zydrunas Stasytis, head of mass media and public relations at the group elaborates: “By working together closely we have been able to achieve a great deal of success in our field and we have even received several awards to highlight this.”
Amongst these awards is the prestigious Lithuanian Exporter award, which the company was given in 2008 by the Confederation of Lithuanian Industries (CLI). It also managed to obtain the International Wind Rose Award at The Baltic Maritime Innovation Forum in May 2009, an accolade that rewards companies for making key achievements in the marine business. The WindLift1, a ship designed by SC Western Shipyard for wind farm construction and maintenance within the high seas, also won the prize for the Development of Innovation in the Marine Business.
Zydrunas explains the importance of such awards to the company: “We seek to show foreign customers our potential, knowledge and experience. We are constantly looking for new solutions and opportunities that can help us maintain stable export performance levels during hard economic times. Such awards motivate us to continue striving towards achieving high results and applying innovative and advanced technologies.”
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The company has also been nominated for Most Successfully Operating Company 2009, and Zydrunas believes this is another important step in the right direction: “These nominations are intended to evaluate and honour companies that not only continue to organise their activities successfully under such turbulent market situations, but also to promote Lithuanian manufacturers and help them develop high quality products and services. Furthermore, it will introduce national industrial products to both local and international customers. When a winner is selected, the awarding body also takes into account how the product or company represents our country to the rest of the world, how it improves the Lithuanian image and how it helps our industries compete on a global level.”
In 2009, SC Western Shipyard constructed a 3000-tonne, nine-metre transformer platform for operations at a wind turbine park. The platform is outfitted with two 200-megawatt transformers weighing 160 tonnes each, as well as a helipad. More than eight kilometres of piping systems are laid within the platform and it is set to operate in the North Sea of the German continental shelf. All the alternating current generated by the wind farm will be transmitted to the platform via sea cables, before being transformed into constant current and sent to the continental electricity grid.
The year 2009 also saw the company open one of the largest and most modernised hot-dip galvanising plants in Eastern Europe, where it built the ice-class ferry, Skarven. This car and passenger carrier is designed to operate in the freezing areas of the Baltic Sea and is the region’s first vessel of this type to be outfitted according to European Union directives, ensuring appropriate services for the disabled. This ferry was also issued with a Green Passport, meaning that it has been certified in accordance with various environmental protection requirements.
This is yet another area that SC Western Shipyard looks to build upon, and Zydrunas concludes by revealing some of the company’s future plans: “We have successfully established ourselves in both the car and passenger ferry construction market and during the last decade, we have been involved with more than 40 unique shipbuilding projects. As we continue to take on new orders and increase the influence of both our own company and the shipbuilding industry of Lithuania itself, I believe that a very exciting future lies ahead.”
SC Western Shipyard Group
Employees: 1500
Products: Shipbuilding & repair
The group was established in 1969 and is today comprised of 22 individual specialist companies, successfully establishing itself as a key player in the ferry, multi-purpose and offshore shipbuilding industry. It is also the first industrial shipping company in the Baltic region engaged in the construction of facilities that utilise renewable energy. All companies within the SC Western Shipyard Group are based within a 50-hectare area but much of its business is conducted with companies from all over the globe, with approximately 85 per cent of its production being exported from any one of its five floating docks.
In June 2007 the SC Western Shipyard Group and the Norwegian company, Fiskerstrand Verft AS, signed an agreement for the promotion of a new company, Fiskerstrand BLRT AS, that will be engaged in the preparation of ship building conception, marketing and project management. Both companies, SC Western Shipyard Group and Fiskerstrand Verft AS, will each be in possession of 50 per cent of company shares. Zydrunas Stasytis, head of mass media and public relations at the group elaborates: “By working together closely we have been able to achieve a great deal of success in our field and we have even received several awards to highlight this.”
Amongst these awards is the prestigious Lithuanian Exporter award, which the company was given in 2008 by the Confederation of Lithuanian Industries (CLI). It also managed to obtain the International Wind Rose Award at The Baltic Maritime Innovation Forum in May 2009, an accolade that rewards companies for making key achievements in the marine business. The WindLift1, a ship designed by SC Western Shipyard for wind farm construction and maintenance within the high seas, also won the prize for the Development of Innovation in the Marine Business.
Zydrunas explains the importance of such awards to the company: “We seek to show foreign customers our potential, knowledge and experience. We are constantly looking for new solutions and opportunities that can help us maintain stable export performance levels during hard economic times. Such awards motivate us to continue striving towards achieving high results and applying innovative and advanced technologies.”
')";>The company has also been nominated for Most Successfully Operating Company 2009, and Zydrunas believes this is another important step in the right direction: “These nominations are intended to evaluate and honour companies that not only continue to organise their activities successfully under such turbulent market situations, but also to promote Lithuanian manufacturers and help them develop high quality products and services. Furthermore, it will introduce national industrial products to both local and international customers. When a winner is selected, the awarding body also takes into account how the product or company represents our country to the rest of the world, how it improves the Lithuanian image and how it helps our industries compete on a global level.”
In 2009, SC Western Shipyard constructed a 3000-tonne, nine-metre transformer platform for operations at a wind turbine park. The platform is outfitted with two 200-megawatt transformers weighing 160 tonnes each, as well as a helipad. More than eight kilometres of piping systems are laid within the platform and it is set to operate in the North Sea of the German continental shelf. All the alternating current generated by the wind farm will be transmitted to the platform via sea cables, before being transformed into constant current and sent to the continental electricity grid.
The year 2009 also saw the company open one of the largest and most modernised hot-dip galvanising plants in Eastern Europe, where it built the ice-class ferry, Skarven. This car and passenger carrier is designed to operate in the freezing areas of the Baltic Sea and is the region’s first vessel of this type to be outfitted according to European Union directives, ensuring appropriate services for the disabled. This ferry was also issued with a Green Passport, meaning that it has been certified in accordance with various environmental protection requirements.
This is yet another area that SC Western Shipyard looks to build upon, and Zydrunas concludes by revealing some of the company’s future plans: “We have successfully established ourselves in both the car and passenger ferry construction market and during the last decade, we have been involved with more than 40 unique shipbuilding projects. As we continue to take on new orders and increase the influence of both our own company and the shipbuilding industry of Lithuania itself, I believe that a very exciting future lies ahead.”
SC Western Shipyard Group
Employees: 1500
Products: Shipbuilding & repair
