The Lenin GDANSK SHIPYARD had already built ships for Brazilian shipowners (or maybe for one shipowner). When I started studying at the Technical School of Shipbuilding (CONRADINUM) in Gdańsk in 1969, at the shipyard's equipment quays there was a ship called AMARALINA, and a little later (probably) the next one in this series - m/v AMALIA. Blue hulls, bulbs bow transom stern. It was impressive. Home port: RIO de JANEIRO fired the imagination; After all, Brazil was a football country for us. Pele, Garincha, Carlos Alberto, Tostao and many others were our idols!!! It seemed to us, young shipbuilding students, that this beautiful ship was truly a technological miracle!
Of course, in more developed countries, similar and more technically advanced general cargo ships, semi-container ships and refrigerated ships were built a long time ago... We, brought up in the system of real socialism, bewildered by communist propaganda, could not have known this. Later (when I was doing my professional internship at the Gdańsk Shipyard) I did not see any more ships built for Brazilian shipowners. The ship in the photo was created almost 10 years after I saw the beautiful Amaralina and 5 years after I left my school with a diploma in Shipbuilding Technology.
1979 was also the last year of normal ship production in Poland.
In 1980, SOLIDARITY was established, then the dark period of Martial Law in Poland... The shipyard began to slowly die. This was brought about by successive governments eager for revenge for the workers' uprisings in December 1970 and August 1980. Economic issues also played a significant role in the collapse of Polish shipyards. They were serious competition for many ship manufacturers in Germany and the Netherlands. Eventually they all fell. I didn't know that any ships for Brazil were built in Gdańsk, apart from those I mentioned.
It's all the more nice to see and know. Thanks for sharing.

The mentioned m/v AMALIA was built and registered as a reefer. The home port was MANAUS.
AMARALINA was a general cargo ship. Port of registration: Rio de Janeiro...

17 derricks... incredible!