Ruhrort shipyard

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New Ruhrorter Schiffswerft GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1921
Seat Duisburg , Germany
management Nikolaus Schellenberger
Branch shipbuilding
Website www.nrsw.de

Model of the Haniel Kurier 61 , built on the RSW
New Ruhrort shipyard

The Ruhrorter Schiffswerft (RSW) is a shipyard in Duisburg - Ruhrort . It was founded in 1921 at the railway port. Today it operates under the name Neue Ruhrorter Schiffswerft in the Ruhrorter Hafen at the harbor basin B.

history

In 1938 the shipyard was taken over by Krupp. In 1950 the Lohbeck company took over the shipyard in Meiderich at the port basin B. In the immediate vicinity were the Meiderich shipyard at basin A and the Triton shipyard at basin C.

In its most successful business period from 1960 to the end of the 1980s, the RSW was one of the most important inland shipyards in Western Europe; it was involved in the development of pushing shipping on the Rhine. The maximum number of employees was 370 people.

Since 1993, the shipyard has been operated as a joint venture, Neue Ruhrorter Schiffswerft, with a focus on shipbuilding, ship repair and maintenance at the same location.

accident

On March 31, 2016, while work on the inland tanker Julius Rütgers in the shipyard, an explosion occurred, as a result of which three workers died.

Web links

Commons : Ruhrorter Schiffswerft  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marc Wolko, Thomas Richter: Two dead in an explosion on a tanker in Duisburg shipyard. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , March 31, 2016, accessed on October 31, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Missing shipyard worker found after a ship explosion. DerWesten.de , April 21, 2016, accessed on October 31, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '22.9 "  N , 6 ° 46' 6.9"  E