BLRT Grupp

BLRT Grupp AS
Company typePrivate
Industry
PredecessorRusso-Baltic Shipbuilding Yard
Founded1912
Headquarters
Tallinn
,
Estonia
Number of locations
  • 52 subsidiaries
  • 4 joint ventures
Key people
Veronika Ivanovskaja (CEO)
Products
Brands
  • BLRT Grupp
  • Marketex Marine
  • Marketex Offshore Constructions
  • Baltic Premator
  • Elme Messer Gaas
  • Elme Metall
  • Elme Trans
Services
RevenueIncrease €411 million [1] (2014)
Number of employees
4,000 [1] (2014)
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.blrt.ee

BLRT Grupp (Balti Laevaremonditehas) is a shipbuilding company headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. In addition to Estonia, the company owns shipyards in Lithuania, Finland and Norway. Its shipbuilding and ship repair subsidiaries are Tallinn Shipyard, BLRT Western Shipyard, Turku Repair Yard, and BLRT Fiskerstrand.[2][3]

On 14 December 2011, Fiskerstrand BLRT delivered the world's largest LNG-powered ferry, MF Boknafjord, to Norwegian company Fjord1.[4][5][6] Another LNG-fired ferry, MF Edøyfjord, was delivered on 30 January 2012.[7]

The total profit was 283.9 million euros in 2017, 302.2 million euros in 2018. Net profit was 18.5 million euros in 2017, 15.1 million euros in 2018.[8]

  1. ^ a b "BLRT Grupp jõudis pärast kaht kahjumlikku aastat kasumisse". Majandus (in Estonian). Postimees. 19 June 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  2. ^ "BLRT Grupp, Rohde Nielsen Ink Agreement for Dredger Construction". Dredgingtoday.com. 2011-03-17. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
  3. ^ "BLRT Grupp buys Baltija Shipyard (Estonia)". OffshoreWind.biz. 2010-07-07. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
  4. ^ "Norway: Fjord1 Launches World's Largest Gas Ferry". World Maritime News. 2011-12-14. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
  5. ^ "Verdens største gassferge" [The world's largest gas ferry]. Maritimt Magasin (in Norwegian). 2012-01-23. Archived from the original on 2012-02-10. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
  6. ^ "Fjord1 and Fiskerstrand BLRT to Build World's Largest LNG-Powered Ferry". Green Car Congress. 2010-07-05. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
  7. ^ "Norway: BLRT Grupp Delivers Gas-powered Ferry to Fjord1". World Maritime News. 2012-01-30. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
  8. ^ "Фёдор Берман: хотелось бы при жизни всё увидеть". Äripäev (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-07-14.