BLRT Grupp

The BLRT Group’s industrial area at the tip of the Kopli peninsula is one of the most monumental industrial ensembles of the early 20th century in the Baltic Sea region. Today, the factory grounds have developed into a modern industrial district, characterized by numerous historical buildings.

It all began 113 years ago, when the tip of the Kopli peninsula was transformed into a modern industrial zone alongside a factory settlement. The shipyard, which built warships for the Imperial Navy, had 8 slipways and employed nearly 10,000 workers.

Within the factory territory, four buildings are protected as heritage monuments – in addition to the main factory building now used by the Estonian Maritime Academy, these include the limestone and steel-framed boiler house, the turbine workshop, and the combined small craft and press workshop building. The rest of the built environment consists of production halls and infrastructure constructed during the Soviet era and later.

BLRT Group is the largest industrial concern in the Baltics, comprising more than 50 subsidiaries across seven countries. In addition to ship repair and shipbuilding, its activities include the manufacturing of high-tech equipment for the offshore and mechanical engineering industries, the processing and marketing of metal and metal products, the production and distribution of industrial and medical gases, as well as real estate development.