Cassens shipyard
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1875/2004/2009 |
| resolution | 2018 |
| Seat | Emden , Germany |
| management | Hermann Kienitz |
| Number of employees | 70 |
| Branch | shipyard |
| Website | www.cassens-werft.de |
The Cassens shipyard was a shipyard in the seaport town of Emden in East Frisia . In 2016 the company gave up shipbuilding. Due to a lack of orders, business activities were discontinued on June 29, 2018.
history
The shipyard was founded in 1875: at that time, master shipbuilder Cassen Cassens from Ihlowerfehn and master shipbuilder Klattendorf from Emden acquired the shipyard and called it Cassensche Werft . The forerunners of this shipyard, however, go back to the year 1682: At that time, Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg , known as the Great Elector , was provided with a shipyard area on the Falderndelft in the historic part of the Emden harbor, where the Brandenburg shipyard was built, which was in the shipyard in 1751 Was renamed to the Prussian eagle . In 1875 it passed to Cassens and Klattendorf. In 1902 the company moved to its current location in the modern part of the Emden harbor that was built in the 1880s .
Schiffswerft und Maschinenfabrik Cassens GmbH had to file for bankruptcy in June 2003 because, according to their own statements, "the difficult global economic situation in shipbuilding, the price pressure from Asia and the" 11. September 2001 "[...] led to bottlenecks and capacity problems" .
A year later, the Cassens shipyard was re-established by new shareholders from the East Frisia region. The shipyard, which currently has 92 employees, is active in the ship repair and shipbuilding sectors. Including temporary workers, up to 300 people work at the shipyard at peak times. Despite the full order books, the shipyard's management had to file for insolvency again in July 2008. The reason was also the insolvency of a shipping company, which was therefore unable to accept the construction of a new container ship. The bank then canceled the loans. The goal is to process the order backlog and continue the company. After the takeover of Cassens Werft GmbH by a group of investors under the leadership of a trustee, the insolvency proceedings were canceled on December 31, 2009 by the Aurich District Court.
In December 2016, the company announced that it would stop building ships. The managing director Hermann Kienitz justified this decision with the difficult market situation. Since then, the Cassens shipyard has concentrated on supplying components for wind turbines . The shipyard ceased operations on June 30, 2018, as the wind turbine manufacturer Enercon will not award any new orders to the Cassens shipyard.
Enercon intends to set up a training construction site on the former shipyard site, on which construction teams will be trained in the use of new wind turbines in the future.
Shipbuilding history
1881 Cassens shipyard delivered with a 169 BRT large schooner their first new building. From around the mid-1880s, two to four sailing loggers were produced per year, later also those with steam drive and sails. Gaff schooners and pilot schooners were added.
The move to the current location (1902) is connected with the conversion from wooden to steel shipbuilding. After Emden became increasingly the seaport of the Ruhr area with the completion of the Dortmund-Ems Canal in 1899 , a new field of activity developed for the shipyard. The Westphalian Transport AG (WTAG) , which completed the transport of goods between Emden and the Ruhr area, the Cassens shipyard now used as a repair yard for more than a hundred units of the inland waterway fleet.
Up until the beginning of the 1960s, barges were primarily built, later tugs , coasters , ferries and special ships were also built .
In 1992 the Cassens shipyard joined a shipyard association to which Russian shareholders also belonged. The shipyard expected this to offer business opportunities on the Russian market. In fact, in the following years, river passenger ships were rebuilt and overhauled, and river barges were converted into river / sea vessels. In 2003, however, the shipyard went bankrupt for the reasons mentioned above.
Before the closure, the Cassens shipyard was - alongside the Nordseewerke - one of the two larger Emden shipyards, albeit significantly smaller than the latter. In addition to these two, there were only smaller boat builders.
In 2016, the shipyard stopped shipbuilding. The shipyard was closed on June 29, 2018.
Shareholder
According to its own statements, the shipyard had the following shareholders:
- Rolf Janssen, Aurich (electrical engineering manufacturer, including marine electronics)
- Tillmann, Emden
- Navicom, Emden (shipbuilding supplier)
- Fa. Ehnts & Willms, Holtriem municipality
- Emder ship equipment, Emden
- AG Reederei Norden-Frisia , Norderney
- AG Ems , Emden (shipping company)
- Gerdes GmbH, Westoverledingen
- Engineering office ABH, Emden
Technical capacities
The company premises were expanded in 1979 by taking over parts of the premises of the neighboring and recently insolvent Emder traditional shipyard Schulte & Bruns . Floating docks of 5000 and 1500 tons are available. The product range includes multi-purpose freighters, ro-ro ships, container ships, ferries, combined cargo and passenger ships, bulk carriers, tankers, research vessels, fishing vessels, tugs, inland vessels, river cruise ships, cruise ships and yachts up to a length of 130 meters and a load capacity of 10,000 dwt. The most successful series in recent years was the Cassens CW 700 container ship .
See also
literature
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen: 125 years of the Cassens shipyard - over 300 years of shipbuilding in Emden, HM Hauschild-Verlag, Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-89757-026-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DVV Media Group GmbH: Login . In: THB . ( thb.info [accessed April 12, 2018]).
- ^ NDR: Cassens shipyard in Emden closes. Retrieved April 12, 2018 .
- ↑ " History ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. “, Cassens-Werft, accessed December 4, 2012
- ↑ Emder Zeitung, January 13, 2007
- ↑ HANSA International Maritime Journal, Issue 7/2008, p. 7
- ↑ Daily port report of January 18, 2010, p. 3
- ↑ Cassens-Werft gives up building of ships. In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung . Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Enercon supplier in Emden closes - 82 jobs affected. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . March 27, 2018, accessed April 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Ute Lipperheide: Start of construction for Enercon training facility in spring. In: Emder newspaper . December 16, 2017, accessed April 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Cassens shipyard is finally history. July 3, 2018, accessed July 3, 2018 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '20.3 " N , 7 ° 11' 47.4" E