Meidericher shipyard

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Meidericher Schiffswerft GmbH & Co. KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding September 13, 1898
Seat Duisburg , Germany
Branch shipbuilding
Website www.meidericherschiffswerft.de

The Meidericher Schiffswerft GmbH & Co. KG is an inland shipyard founded in 1898 with headquarters in Duisburg , which carries out the new construction, conversion and repair of inland waterways , Rhine-Sea ships and special watercraft of all kinds.

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The Meidericher shipyard was founded on September 13, 1898 by the Duisburg banker Alwin Hilger. The shipyard has a 110 m slipway , two stern docks for ships up to 500 t and an interior width of up to 16 m and a 50 t handling crane .

In addition to the shipyard operations, a large number of specialist companies are located on the shipyard site in Duisburg, which offer other ship-specific services with their own workshops.

Since 1992, the Meidericher shipyard has also had a service for yacht and boat services for sport and leisure shipping.

New buildings

The Meidericher shipyard has so far built around 430 newbuildings of all kinds of special ships. The new construction program includes passenger ships , school ships , hotel ships , church boats, police boats, fire boats, work boats of all kinds, oil rescue boats, icebreakers, bunker boats, sounding boats, floating pumping stations, rotary aerators, jetties and piers. Motorized goods ships, special tankers, push boats, push motor ships, push lighter , tank lighters are also built; In addition, numerous special vehicles for hydraulic engineering such as bucket chain excavators, floating grabs, automatic suction excavators, motorized hydraulic folding ships, hydraulic folding barges and pontoon systems of all kinds (for example dismountable excavator pontoons). In addition, there are Rhine-Sea ships, soul lighters and lowerable ocean-going pontoons with a load capacity of up to 10,000 t.

Web links

Commons : Ships built at Meidericher Schiffswerft  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 22.3 "  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 45.4"  E