It was founded in the aftermath of World War II, when the German port of Stettin was taken over by Poland and renamed Szczecin.

The state-owned shipyard then inherited the assets of the former German shipbuilding giant AG Vulcan Stettin.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the shipyard was one of the most important centers of anticommunist resistance in Poland (see: Polish 1970 protests, Solidarity).

[2][3] Since 2009, Szczecin Industrial Park (Stocznia Szczecińska) has been created[when?]

[4] The 45-hectare site, about two kilometres from the city centre is well equipped shipbuilding and ship repair, with 3 slipways (Wulkan Nowy, Odra Nowa and Wulkan Stary), 750 m of quays, 80 000 sqm of prefabrication yards and over 10 ha of warehouses.