Polska Żegluga Morska known as Polsteam or PŻM, is a cargo ship operator based in Szczecin, Poland. Polsteam is a state-owned enterprise with around 3,000 employees.
A Chinese-built ship owned by the company, MS Polesie, caused the crash into and sinking of British-flagged MS Verity on 24 October 2023 in the North Sea.[1]
Company history
Polsteam was founded in 1951, nationalizing the assets of two Polish pre-WWII marine freight companies (Gdynia America Line and Żegluga Polska), making it the oldest Polish cargo ship operator in existence.[2] Initially, Polsteam's fleet comprised 11 ships of joint carrying capacity of approx 27,000 DWT.[3] Among those ships there were: four of the so-called. French ships, which were steamers built in 1926 in French