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Nordic Yards Holding GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 2009
Seat Wismar , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Herbert Aly, managing director
Number of employees 900 (2015)
sales 174.5 million euros (2013)
Branch shipbuilding
Website www.nordicyards.com

Nordic Yards  was a shipyard group based in  Wismar . In addition to  shipbuilding  , Nordic Yards was also a manufacturer and developer of maritime structures - for example for the  offshore sector. Nordic Yards included the  subsidiaries  Nordic Yards Wismar ,  Nordic Yards Warnemünde  and  Nordic Yards Stralsund .

In  2016, an investor was found in the Genting Hong Kong group  who took over the three shipyard locations in Wismar, Rostock and Stralsund as  MV Werften  . This created a network of three shipyards in northern Germany, whose focus is on the construction of cruise ships.

history

In June 2009, the then Wadan shipyards had to file for bankruptcy. After the opening of the proceedings, the court-appointed insolvency administrator Marc Odebrecht had the task of looking for an investor for the entire property (including real estate, buildings, equipment, machines and intellectual property) . On August 15, 2009, Nordic Yards took over the two shipyards in Wismar and Warnemünde as part of an asset deal . The sole owner and managing director of Nordic Yards was the Russian investor Vitaly Yusufov .

On June 1, 2014, Nordic Yards took over the insolvent Volkswerft Stralsund for an estimated five million euros . This Stralsund shipyard now formed the third location of the shipyard group as Nordic Yards Stralsund GmbH .

In March 2016, the Genting Group confirmed the takeover of the three locations for 230.6 million euros; in July Genting Hong Kong announced the founding of MV Werften with its headquarters in Wismar.

Products

Nordic Yards concentrated on special ships such as ice-breaking and ice-going ships, special tankers, ferries and passenger ships (e.g. RoRo ships and RoPax ferries ) as well as offshore projects (stationary and floating).

Ships for arctic use / special tankers

The Stena Hollandica, built by Nordic Yards

Nordic Yards builds and develops ships of all ice classes .

  • At the Wismar site, the shipyard developed and built the ice-breaking Arctic tanker "Nordic AT 19" ordered by MMC Norilsk Nickel . The ship was handed over to the Russian mining company at the end of September 2011.
  • From June to August 2011, Nordic Yards modernized the icebreaking container ship “Norilskiy Nickel” of the Aker ACS 650 type for the Russian company Norilsk Nickel .
  • In December 2012, Nordics Yards received an order to build two ice-breaking rescue and recovery vessels for the Arctic. The client is the Russian Ministry of Transport.
  • In August 2013, Nordic Yards announced that it was building a deckhouse for the Russian icebreaker LK-25. The deckhouse will weigh 2,500 tons and will be fully equipped.

Ferries / passenger ships

In the large shipyard halls in Wismar and Warnemünde, Nordic Yards builds ferries and passenger ships developed by the shipyard (e.g. RoRo ships and RoPax ferries). In 2010 Nordic Yards delivered the world's largest combined cargo and passenger ferries (= RoPax) Stena Hollandica and Stena Britannica to the Swedish shipping company Stena Line .

Offshore projects

Nordic Yards develops and builds ships and structures in the offshore sector (stationary and floating). The shipyard also takes on the design and manufacture of offshore platforms and foundation structures. At the BalticFuture 2011 congress fair in Rostock, Nordic Yards presented an installation ship developed by the shipyard for the construction of offshore wind farms (OWP).

Offshore projects in the German Bight

Nordic Yards built a. a. three offshore HVDC - converter platforms for Siemens Energy .

  • With the help of the “ BorWin beta ” converter platform, the offshore wind farms “ Global Tech I ” and (later) “ Veja Mate ” will be connected to the mainland network by HVDC submarine cables “BorWin 2” from the network operator TenneT TSO .
  • The converter platform " HelWin alpha " was developed as part of the offshore wind farm grid connection project "HelWin 1" [within the wind farm cluster Helgoland (" Nordsee Ost " and " Meerwind  Süd | Ost")] in the North Sea north of the island Heligoland set up.
  • The company announced the third order from Siemens Energy on February 3, 2012: The " SylWin alpha " converter platform was manufactured from May 2, 2012 with construction number 210. It also consists of two main components - the foundation and the so-called topside with the rooms for the systems and the helicopter deck. This platform is required for the connection of the “ DanTysk ” OWP, which is currently under construction, and the “ Nördlicher Grund ” OWP, which is yet to be built, in the North Sea, around 70 kilometers west of the island of Sylt . It is almost 80 meters high, 56 meters wide and 82.5 meters long.

The company announced another project on August 10, 2012. Nordic Yards had signed a contract to build a Wind Turbine Service Jack Up Vessel (WTSJUV). The client is the Danish company DBB Jack-Up Services A / S based in Aarhus. The special ship is used for the maintenance of offshore wind turbines. It will be 80 meters long, 32 meters wide and have a jack-up system, so it can be set up on the seabed on four jack-up legs and use an on-board crane to replace wind turbine components at a height of up to 100 meters. The ship is suitable for work at a water depth of up to 45 meters. DBB Jack-Up Services developed the concept of the ship based on its experience with the self-erecting service ship Wind . A design office from Denmark is involved in the creation of the design. The focus of the current order is the further development of the jack-up system, which raises the ship as a work platform. The production took place at the locations in Rostock-Warnemünde and Wismar and took about a year. The start of construction was planned for spring 2013.

The fourth HVDC converter platform (“ DolWin gamma ”) was the largest order in the company's history to date , this time for the French energy company Alstom Grid, which equips the platform electrically and supplies it to the network operator TenneT. According to media reports, the manufacturing and equipment contract, which will take place outside of Nordic Yards, is worth a total of EUR 800 million. The construction of the platform began on October 9, 2014 with the first steel cut at the Warnemünder Werft; a total of more than 20,000 tons of steel were used for the structure with the dimensions 85 m length, 54 m width and 32 m height. At the Stralsund shipyard, work began on building the jacket foundation for the platform in November 2014. The “DolWin gamma” platform was installed in July 2017 alongside the existing “DolWin alpha” converter platform. From September 2018 it will connect the OWFs “ Borkum Riffgrund 2 ” and “ Merkur Offshore ” to the German power grid.

In September 2015, Genting Hong Kong acquired a majority stake in Lloyd-Werft for EUR 17.5 million. At the beginning of January 2016, Genting Hong Kong acquired the remaining shares in Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven AG and Lloyd Investitions- und Verwaltungs-GmbH . In March 2016, the Genting Group confirmed the takeover of Nordic-Yards and the associated shipyards for a purchase price of 230 million euros; Initially, the plan was to merge as the Lloyd Werft Group with the involvement of Nordic-Yards. In July 2016, the three Nordic Yards shipyards were merged under the name MV Werften .

Locations

Nordic Yards Wismar
Nordic Yards Warnemünde
Volkswerft Stralsund

The land at the three locations was sold to real estate companies and then rented.

Nordic Yards Wismar

Location: Wismar
Built: 1946
Shipyard: 560,000 m²
Building dock: 340 m × 67 m × 13.4 m (completely covered)
Crane capacity: up to 1000 t

Nordic Yards Warnemünde

Location: Rostock-Warnemünde
Built: 1946 (originally as Kröger shipyard in 1928 )
Shipyard: 850,000 m²
Building dock: 320 m × 54 m × 10.7 m (80 m covered)
Crane capacity: up to 700 t

Nordic Yards Stralsund

Location: Stralsund
Built: 1941 as a Kröger shipyard branch, since 1948 as Volkswerft Stralsund

Research & Development

Nordic Yards presented a special ship for the construction of offshore wind farms at the “BalticFuture 2011” congress fair in Rostock and at the “Nor-Shipping” international trade fair in Oslo . Thanks to the completed construction of the installation ship, wind turbines built on land can be transported and set up on the open sea for installation. The heavy-duty ship can transport individual components for the offshore wind farms with up to 1,300 tons.

In addition, Nordic Yards is involved in the expert alliance POLAR (“Production, Operation and Living in Arctic Regions”) based in Rostock. The aim of the initiative, which includes 14 partner companies, is the joint development of technical system solutions for the extraction, processing, transport and storage of raw materials under the extreme conditions of the Arctic regions. POLAR is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the “Company Region” innovation initiative.

The company is also a member of the “Wind Energy Network Rostock eV”, a company network for wind energy in the northeast region.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wismar / Rostock: Nordic Yards dismisses 500 shipbuilders. In: Schweriner People's Newspaper . September 1, 2015, accessed January 4, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Federal Gazette : Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2013
  3. ↑ Creditors' committee approves sale of Wadan shipyards , press release by the law firm Brinkmann & Partner dated August 17, 2009
  4. ↑ Russian: Виталий Юсуфов
  5. ↑ The insolvency administrator hands over the Volkswerft to Yusufov . In: Daily port report from June 3, 2014, p. 1/2
  6. ↑ Nordic Yards takes over Volkswerft . In: Handelsblatt , No. 104 of June 2, 2014, p. 19
  7. ↑ Asians buy Nordic Yards in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. March 2, 2016, accessed March 2, 2016 .
  8. ^ Hansa International Maritime Journal online
  9. ↑ Nordic Yards press release dated December 21, 2012 ( Memento of the original dated September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Russian state contract: Nordic Yards builds two ice-breaking rescue and recovery ships for the Arctic @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nordicyards.com
  10. ↑ Nordic Yards press release of August 7, 2013 ( Memento of the original of September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nordicyards.com
  11. ^ New Stena Hollandica ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1 MB), RoPax International Magazine for Ferry and RoRo Shipping
  12. ↑ Nordic Yards is building a second offshore platform ( Memento from May 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), NDR 1 Radio MV from May 2, 2011
  13. ↑ Burning cut at the shipyard for a new offshore platform  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ostsee-Zeitung of May 24, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ostsee-zeitung.de  
  14. ↑ North Sea converter platform successfully installed . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 10/2013, p. 56
  15. ↑ Million order for Warnemünder shipyard Nordic Yards , Hamburger Abendblatt from February 3rd, 2012
  16. ↑ Shipyard to build special ship for Danes . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from August 13, 2012
  17. ↑ Order for converter platform from Alstom . In: Hansa , issue 4/2013, special section Wind & Maritim, p. 21
  18. ↑ Peter Kleinort: First steel cut for “DolWin gamma” . In: Daily port report of October 10, 2014, p. 3
  19. ↑ Shipyard welds a piece of the future . In: Daily port report from November 19, 2014, p. 4
  20. ↑ Wolfhart Fabarius: Next milestone for ocean wind power · DolWin3 project is making decisive progress · Converter platform installed · Efficient transmission . In: Daily port report of July 13, 2017, pp. 1 + 4
  21. ↑ Wolfhart Fabarius: "DolWin Gamma" installed . In: Daily port report of July 12, 2017, p. 16
  22. ↑ Press release from Lloyd Werft: Genting Hong Kong acquires Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 18, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lloydwerft.com
  23. ↑ Genting joins Lloyd . In: Daily port report of September 18, 2015, p. 1
  24. ↑ Lloyd Werft sets the course for the future - Malaysian Genting Group takes over shares for 17.5 million euros . In: Daily port report of September 21, 2015, p. 1/3
  25. ↑ Genting Hong Kong buys Lloyd shipyard in full. January 4, 2016, accessed January 4, 2016 .
  26. ↑ Frank Binder: Genting buys all of Lloyd Werft · Malaysian group also takes over the remaining shares worth 16.47 million euros . In: Daily port report from January 6, 2016, p. 15
  27. ↑ Nordic Yards is selling properties . In: Daily port report of September 21, 2015, p. 2
  28. ↑ Type of installation vessel for offshore projects presented , Schiff & Hafen (online) from May 18, 2011
  29. ^ Presentation of the initiative POLAR - Production, Operation and Living in Arctic Regions - Rostock , accessed on August 17, 2011
  30. ↑ Membership list of the Wind Energy Network Rostock eV ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 17, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wind-energy-network.de