Flensburg shipbuilding company

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Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1872
Seat Flensburg , Germany
management Alexander Gregg-Smith
Number of employees 750 (2014)
Branch Shipbuilding - shipyard
Website www.fsg-ship.de

The Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG ( FSG for short ) is a German shipyard founded in 1872 with headquarters in the port of Flensburg .

history

From the early days to the First World War

Share of 1500 RM in the Flensburg shipbuilding company on June 8, 1900

In 1872 five Flensburg entrepreneurs founded the Flensburger Schiffsbau-Gesellschaft , or FSG for short, as a stock corporation . On the west side of the Flensburg harbor , an area of ​​27,135 m² was acquired and Helgen was built for ships up to 100 meters in size. The first new building, a full steel ship, the Doris Brodersen , was put into service in 1875. In 1892 a floating dock with a load capacity of 2300 tons was built. By 1900 the FSG already had over 2000 employees.

The Helgenanlage soon became too small for the construction of the ever larger ships, so the shipyard management acquired five large villa plots in front of the Ostseebad urban area , on which five slipways, each 150 m long and 20 m wide, were used to build seagoing ships up to 8,000 GRT made possible. In 1901 the "New Shipyard" was put into operation. The first ship was probably built in 1903. The "old shipyard" was initially used for equipment and repairs (today Flensburger Fahrzeugbau is located there ). In 1912 the workforce had grown to 2,989 men, who built twelve steamers with a total of 615,000 GRT that year . One of the main customers was the German-Australian Steamship Company , which received 36 ships from Flensburg between 1889 and 1914 alone.

During the First World War , the FSG was able to continue building merchant ships and was also involved in the construction of the pressure hulls for the U 151 Germany and Bremen merchant submarines and another U-cruiser of this type (construction no. 381–383 ).

Crisis years

After the end of the war, four larger cargo steamers could be built again in 1920 and the area enlarged. The company was not financially successful in the 1920s. After the global economic crisis from 1929 the workforce sank to only 200 men and in the years from 1930 to 1934 the shipyard had to cease operations completely due to the generally poor economic situation. The city of Flensburg bought 25% of the shares to maintain the shipyard. The company then slowly regained its foothold. In 1938 there were orders for 20 ships with a total of 108,900 tdw, a floating crane and two floating docks for the Navy High Command .

Aerial view of the shipyard from June 1965
Shipbuilding hall and the RollDock Storm , 2014
Shipbuilding hall and equipment quay of FSG with the new Coastal Renaissance ( BC Ferries ) building, 2007
Shipbuilding hall and equipment quay of the FSG, 2015
New building 731 Pauline before being launched in the shipbuilding hall
Shipyard hall with new building 731 Pauline for the Belgian shipping company Cobelfret

Second World War

From 1941 to 1945 28 submarines were delivered. For this purpose, a new shipyard with three spiers was built, which was used for civil shipbuilding after the war when the company moved its location to the new site. From mid-1943 only the boats that had already started were completed, the last of which was delivered in January 1945. In addition, the FSG had to complete five boats started at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg (U 1025 to 1030, of which only U 1025 are still in service). Until the end of the war, operations concentrated again on the construction of surface ships, such as the standard freighters for the DDG Hansa . Five air raids on the shipyard did not significantly disrupt operations; the last and heaviest was on May 19, 1943, when 22 bombs fell on the equipment yard and the shipyard recorded 48 hits.

From the 1980s

In 1982 a 275 m long shipbuilding hall was built to replace two of the three slipways . This in turn contains a slipway, from that date all of the launchings took place in the FSG. The shipyard was also completely refurbished, with a new building with administration and design offices being built.

In 1990 the ship owner Egon Oldendorff acquired the company.

At the end of December 2008, the company changed hands again. The managing director Peter Sierk, active from 2005, and investors around Munich-based Orlando Management GmbH acquired the shares in FSG as part of a so-called management buy-out .

In 2012, the shipyard had cargo ferries for the Turkish Ulusoy Sealines, a ConRo ship for Oceanex (Canada) and two heavy-duty transport ships on the order books, which showed a capacity utilization until mid-2014.

present

By 2014 the shipyard had built over 760 ships of various types. From 2010, specialization in RoRo ships followed , and the shipyard became the market leader in this segment. In the meantime the focus has been shifted from series to special shipbuilding. In addition to RoPax and ConRo ships, heavy-duty transport ships and two seismic ships as well as ships for the offshore market were built.

On October 31, 2014, the Norwegian family company Siem Industries took over the FSG shipyard with around 750 employees.

In February 2019, Lars Windhorst's Sapinda holding took a 76% stake in the company and saved it from possible bankruptcy after the shipyard ran into financial difficulties due to multiple delays during the construction of WB Yeats . The complete takeover of the shipyard finally took place in August 2019 by the aforementioned holding company, which has since been renamed Tennor Holding BV . There was also a delay of several months in the subsequent construction of the Honfleur , which was due for delivery in 2019. As a result of the delays, the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft and the Australian TT-Line Company dissolved the contract concluded in 2018 for the construction of two ferries (construction numbers 778 and 779) with scheduled delivery in 2021.

Due to the spread of the corona virus , operations at the shipyard were temporarily suspended on March 19, 2020. The existing application for short-time work has been expanded for employees. In April 2020, an application for insolvency was filed and the most recently completed RoRo ship was delivered to the Norwegian Siem Group. In mid-June 2020, an attempt was made to resume production in order to complete the new building 774 for the customer. For this, however, the financing had to be secured.

The EUR 165.2 million ferry with 67,300 GT, ordered by the Irish Continental Group in January 2018, should be delivered in 2020 and replace the Ulysses on the Dublin - Holyhead route . However, the contract was terminated in June 2020 following the bankruptcy of the shipyard.

In June 2020, the French shipping company Brittany Ferries also terminated the contract for the Honfleur ferry, which was already being fitted out . This means that the shipyard no longer has any orders. The FSG employees are concerned with calculations and offers as well as with the general overhaul of the shipyard, not with work on the ship.

The entrepreneur Lars Windhorst announced on July 31, 2020 that several companies belonging to Tennor Holding will take over parts of the shipyard with a total of around 350 employees by September 2020. The remaining 300 or so employees can switch to a transfer company for six months on August 1, 2020 .

See also

literature

  • Gert Uwe Detlefsen: Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft 1872–1982 . 110 years of shipbuilding in Flensburg. Verlag Karl-Heinz Butziger, Hamburg 1982.

Web links

Commons : Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Managing director of the Flensburg shipyard FSG replaced. Welt, January 31, 2019, accessed February 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b From riveter to welder, from constructor to ship designer ( Memento from March 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 405
  4. ↑ flensburg.de City History ( Memento from May 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Flensburger Schiffsbau-Ges, Flensburg. uboat.net, accessed April 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft with new owners ( Memento from February 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ www.orlandofund.com ( Memento from February 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Launched Seatruck Precision . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 5/2012, p. 7, Seehafen-Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISSN  0938-1643
  9. ^ Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Flensburg . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 9/2014, SMM 2014, exhibitor preliminary reports, p. 103
  10. ↑ Peter Kleinort: Takeover of FSG is now complete . In: Daily port report from November 4, 2014, p. 2
  11. ^ Financial investor Windhorst rescues Flensburger Werft , Handelsblatt.com, February 12, 2019
  12. ↑ FSG completely taken over by Tennor. In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 10/2019, p. 6
  13. ↑ Die Welt : Windhorst takes over Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft completely , from August 30, 2019, accessed on August 31, 2019
  14. ↑ Letter Of Intent signed for new Spirits. January 2018, accessed on June 22, 2020 .
  15. ↑ TT-Line Company Pty Ltd and FSG sign contract for new Spirits. May 2018, accessed on June 22, 2020 .
  16. ↑ FSG confirms the amicable cancellation of two shipbuilding orders with TT-LINE FSG press release of February 27, 2020, accessed on June 8, 2020
  17. ↑ TT-Line Company Pty Ltd and FSG sign contract for two LNG passenger ferries ( Memento from June 17, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Flensburg shipyard cancels two newbuilding orders. n-tv, February 27, 2020, accessed on April 6, 2020 .
  19. ↑ TT-Line statement re Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft. TT-Line Company, February 27, 2020, accessed on April 6, 2020 (English).
  20. ↑ Timo Jann: Corona: FSG ceases operations · 600 employees should receive short-time work benefits that have been applied for for longer . In: Daily port report from March 19, 2020, p. 16
  21. ↑ https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/Flensburger-Werft-FSG-stell-Insolvenzmeldung,fsg302.html
  22. ↑ Timo Jann: Flensburg: Last FSG newbuilding delivered · Ro-Ro freighter “Liekut” handed over to the Norwegian Siem Group · Future of the shipyard still uncertain . In: Daily port report of April 21, 2020, p. 1
  23. ↑ Benjamin Klare: FSG wants to start work in June. In: Daily port report of May 29, 2020, p. 1
  24. ↑ ROPAX FERRY 777 Irish Ferries. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
  25. ↑ FSG is building another RoPax ferry for the Irish Sea ( Memento from January 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Hansa , January 2, 2018.
  26. ^ Irish Continental Group plc ("ICG" or the "Group") Trading update. June 11, 2020, accessed on June 12, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Brittany Ferries Cancels New Build Order. June 18, 2020, accessed June 19, 2020 .
  28. ↑ Mira Nagar: Flensburg shipbuilding in crisis: French shipping company: "We no longer believe in the FSG" | shz.de. Retrieved June 22, 2020 .
  29. ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: FSG: "Rescue at the last minute" · Investor Lars Windhorst takes over the shipyard and a large part of the workforce . In: Daily port report from August 1, 2020, p. 1
  30. ↑ Birger Nicolai: Lars Windhorst buys Flensburg shipyard - twice . welt.de, July 31, 2020, accessed on August 10, 2020

Coordinates: 54 ° 48 ′ 28.2 "  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 52.5"  E