Ekensberg's Varv
Ekensbergs Varv was a shipyard in Stockholm , Sweden .
Ekensbergs Werft was founded in 1873 in what was then the municipality of Brännkyrka south of Stockholm by Stockholms Transport- och Bogserings AB, founded in 1870. The shipyard was originally intended for its own needs, but over time other companies also placed orders with the shipyard, and in 1906 the first motor ships were built. The shipyard flourished until the first few years after the First World War , but then the demand for newbuildings and repairs collapsed. Stockholms Transport- och Bogserings went bankrupt in 1924 , and the new owner of Ekensbergs Werft was Stockholms Enskilda Bank .
In the following year, the shipyard was resumed by AB Ekensbergs Varv, which was newly created by the bank. Ekensbergs also took over a large part of the employees and customers of Bergsunds Mekaniska Verkstads, which went bankrupt in 1924 . The shipyard was expanded with a new floating dock and a 120 m assembly hall. (An important prerequisite for the expansion and continued operation of the shipyard was the opening of the new Hammarbyleden Canal in 1929, which made it possible to bypass the Slussen Gorge to the Baltic Sea.) In addition to the construction and repair of ships, the construction of bridges was also carried out on, including the 1931-1935 built Västerbron (West Bridge) in Stockholm and the 1934 opened Tranebergsbron (Traneberg Bridge ).
In 1942, Ekensbergs was bought by the Salén shipping company and in the following years it was considerably enlarged and modernized. The shipyard flourished in the 1950s, with construction contracts from Brazil, France, Colombia and the Soviet Union, and employed 400 workers. In 1959 the largest ship ever built at Ekensbergs was launched, the 12,860 ton Vimeira.
In the long run, however, the location on Lake Mälaren proved to be a significant obstacle, because access to the Baltic Sea through the Hammarbyleden or the Södertälje Canal set rigid limits on the size of ships that could be built or repaired. When the Salén shipping company acquired the more favorably located Finnboda shipyard in Nacka in 1970 , operations in Ekensbergs were discontinued and machines and personnel were relocated to Finnboda. The site of the former shipyard was bought by the City of Stockholm in 1972 and converted into a housing estate in the early 1980s.
Coordinates: 59 ° 18 ′ 53.6 ″ N , 17 ° 59 ′ 10.7 ″ E
