Uljanik

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Uljanik

Type	Public
Founded	1856, Pula, Austria-Hungary
Headquarters	Pula, Croatia
Industry	Shipbuilding and Engineering
Products	Ships, engines
Employees	14,000
Website	Uljanik.hr

Uljanik is the name of a shipbuilding company and shipyard located in Pula, Croatia. It was named after an islet on which there used to grow olive trees while at present the steel and hull fabrication workshops are situated there.

1 History
2 Notorious ships constructed in Uljanik
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

View on a ship being built in Uljanik

Uljanik is located on the wedge-looking island in the middle of the bay and on much of the left sideof the bay

Uljanik was founded in 1856, in the carefully selected bay of Pula as a shipyard of the Austro-Hungarian navy. The foundation stone was laid on December 9th so that date is celebrated as the anniversary of the shipyard, one of the oldest in the world. Almost two years after laying the foundation stone - on October 5th, 1858, the first ship - SMS Kaiser - having a deadweight of 5,194 tonnes, was launched from the berth. The construction of 55 ships of various types for the Austro-Hungarian fleet having a totalof 53,588 metric tons of deadweight (DWT) followed.

In the long period of continuous work, the shipyard passed through various development periods. During the Italian rule it was engaged in repairs, docking and cutting of old ships. After the fall of Italy during World War II it became a German naval base. From 1947 it was being renovated under the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. It continued with the docking, reconstructions and repair of ships, while the first newbuilding was delivered in 1951. It developed engineering, electrical production and other productions.

In the 1990s, with Croatia, it became a joint-stock company and continued with the shipbuilding production of different and special ships, and in the second half of 1998, it entered the period of great technological rebuilding. In the period from 1947 to the end of 1998, Uljanik delivered 194 newbuildings, totalling more than 6 million DWT, to buyers from all continents.

With VLCC-s the Shipyard from Pula has developed the technology of building the hull in two parts and then joining them afloat. In that way, in the period from 1972 to 1976 11 ships were built and, among them the biggest ones, Tarfala of 275,000 DWT for the Stockholm based company Gränges AB, and Kanchenjunga of 277,120 DWT delivered to the Indian company - "The Shipping Corporation of India" in 1975. ^[1]