BLRT Grupp

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BLRT Grupp AS
Company type Private
Industry
PredecessorRusso-Baltic Shipbuilding Yard
Founded1912
Headquarters,
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
RevenueIncrease2.svg €411 million [1]  (2014)
Number of employees
4,000 [1]  (2014)
Subsidiaries
Website www.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]

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