Lloyd Werft Wismar

Lloyd Werft Wismar (former VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar, Aker MTW Werft, Wadan Yards MTW, Nordic Yards Wismar) is a German shipbuilding company, headquartered in Wismar. Since June 1, 1990 it has been part of the Deutschen Maschinen- und Schiffbau AG (DMS AG),[1] 2009–2016 was part of the Nordic Yards Holding GmbH,[2] and since 2016 is part of the Lloyd Werft Group.

Lloyd Werft Wismar
Type1951–1990 VEB
1990– GmbH
IndustryShipbuilding
Founded1946
Headquarters
Wismar
,
Germany
ProductsFishing Vessels
River cruise ships
Passenger ships
Cargo ships
Number of employees
700
ParentLloyd Werft Group
Websitewww.nordicyards.com

History

The ship repair yard was founded by Red Army on April 27, 1946.[3] The Ivan Susanin was the first ship repaired at this yard. The shipyard developed quickly, from Soviet ship repair yard to VVB Schiffsreparaturwerft Wismar, in 1948, renamed to Hochseeschiffbau Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar VEB, in 1951. The first new ship V. Chkalov was built for the Soviet Union as war reparations after World War II on March 30, 1954.

In 2016, Genting Hong Kong purchased Nordic Yards Wismar and combined it with the Nordic Yards Warnemunde and Stralsund shipyards and the German Lloyd Werft shipyard to form the Lloyd Werft Group,[4] subsequently reorganized as MV Werften.[5]

Ships built by Nordic Yards Wismar 2009-2016

Container ships
  • MS Asterix 2010 - being converted (2015-2018) as Auxiliary replenishment vessel for Royal Canadian Navy

Ships built by VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar 1951-1990 (selection)

Folding kayaks
  • Typ Kolibri

Cargo ships
  • Typ Afrika
  • Typ MBC
  • Typ OBC

River cruise ships

Ocean liners/Cruise ships
  • Marco Polo (originally named Aleksandr Pushkin)
  • Mikhail Kalinin – the first passenger ship in sea-shipping history returned from Antarctica
  • Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze at shipyard on April 9, 1959
  • Korolenko as hotelship at Vyborg
  • The Russian training ship Gospodin Velikiy Novgorod on the Volkhov River
  • Feliks Dzerzhinskiy at the outfitting quay

See also

References
  1. VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar Archived 2013-06-15 at the Wayback Machine(in German)
  2. Aker MTW Werft GmbH Archived 2013-04-11 at Archive.today(in English)
  3. VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar Archived 2013-06-15 at the Wayback Machine(in German)
  4. "Aktuelles - Pressemitteilungen - Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven". lloydwerft.com. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  5. "Genting HK to invest 100m euros in its German shipyard MV Werften". The Star. 11 June 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2018.


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