Shipbuilding in East Friesland and Papenburg

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The shipbuilding in the region Ostfriesland and the adjacent Emsland city Papenburg has a centuries-long tradition. For the seaport city of Emden , for example, records of shipbuilding can be traced back to the late Middle Ages. Today the shipyards are an important economic factor. Because of shipbuilding and seaport handling, the city of Papenburg is part of the East Frisian Chamber of Commerce and Industry District, although it is located in the Emsland and would therefore actually belong to the Osnabrück / Emsland Chamber of Commerce.

Shipyards

The Norwegian Jewel in front of the more than 70 meter high halls of the Meyer Werft, Papenburg
New building on the slipway of the North Sea Works in Emden
The Cassens shipyard in Emden as seen from the harbor
The Ferus Smit shipyard in Leer

The largest shipyard in the region is the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg, Emsland, which employed around 3,400 people in 2017. It is known throughout Germany for the construction of cruise ships, but also builds ferries and gas tankers, among other things. The company has been family-owned since 1795. The shipyard has the largest covered building docks in the world with a length of up to 529 meters.

The second largest shipyard in the region is the Nordseewerke in Emden with around 1,400 employees. The shipyard belonged to ThyssenKrupp together with Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, HDW in Kiel and other shipyards and was taken over by Schaaf Industrie (SIAG) in 2010 . The Nordseewerke built submarines and surface ships such as frigates and corvettes for the German Navy and naval forces of other countries as well as container ships and special ships such as research vessels , suction dredgers, etc. SIAG Nordseewerke has been manufacturing components for offshore wind farms since 2011 .

There are also the Diedrich shipyard in Oldersum with 24 employees and the Ferus Smit shipyard in Leer with around 50 employees (as of 2012). In Emden, the Cassens shipyard existed with around 70 employees until 2018 . The Cassens shipyard belonged to several regional owners who re-founded the company in 2003 after the previous shipyard went bankrupt. The owners included the Aurich company Rolf Janssen and the AG Reederei Norden-Frisia, as well as the Emder Reederei AG Ems and other shipbuilding suppliers from the region.

In the past, the Diedrich shipyard built most of the ferries for the East Frisian island shipping companies. By the end of the 1980s, around 100 people were employed at the shipyard in Oldersum, a town with 1600 residents. Since hardly any newbuildings were delivered in the following years, the shipyard concentrated on the repair business. The turnover in 2006 was around 2.5 million euros. By 2012 the shipyard had built 80 ships, including passenger ships, ferries and fishing vehicles. The Diedrich shipyard also belongs to several regional companies, including the AG Reederei Norden-Frisia and the shipping company Baltrum-Linie as well as the electrotechnical works Rolf Janssen in Aurich (which, among other things, act as shipbuilding suppliers) and the Emder (water) construction company Gebrüder Neumann .

The Ferus Smit shipyard in Leer is a subsidiary of the Dutch Ferus Smit shipyard from Westerbroek in the neighboring Dutch province of Groningen . The Leer shipyard was taken over by the Dutch in 1996 in order to be able to build larger ship units. On the one hand, the Dutch operation is inland, so access to the open sea at Delfzijl is restricted by bridges and locks, whereas the port of Leer is only separated from the open sea by the sea lock in Leer and the generously dimensioned Ems barrier. On the other hand, the slipway in Westerbroek only allows the construction of ships up to a maximum width of 16 meters and a length of 130 meters, while the slipway in Leer also allows the construction of ships up to a width of 26 meters and a length of 170 meters . According to the shipyard, the tonnage of the ships built is between 4,500 and 23,000 tons. All types of cargo ships are built within this framework.

The shipyards receive a large number of new construction and repair orders from regional shipping companies , especially those in Leer.

Boat builder

In addition to the five larger shipyards, there are also a number of boat builders that manufacture and repair pleasure craft. These include, for example, the Norddeicher boat yard , the Borssumer boat yard in Emden and the Voss shipyard in Westerende-Kirchloog .

Suppliers

In the IHK district of Ostfriesland and Papenburg, considerable sums are flowing from the shipyards to shipbuilding suppliers. According to statistics from the regional IHK, the five larger shipyards alone spent a total of more than 143 million euros on wholesale products from the region in 2005. Of this, the city of Papenburg accounted for 64 million euros, the city of Emden 41 million euros, the district of Leer 19 million euros, the district of Aurich 16 million euros and the district of Wittmund three million euros.

The shipbuilding suppliers in the region include the Rolf Janssen electrotechnical works in Aurich (with the subsidiary Emder Schiffs- und Industrieelektrik in Emden), which has more than 250 employees, Emder Schiffsausüstungs-GmbH (around 100 employees) and EMS PreCab , a subsidiary the Meyer shipyard , which specializes with approximately 180 employees in the construction of cabins for cruise ships. A large number of companies in navigation and communication technology as well as other specialized suppliers complete the picture. Many small and medium-sized craft businesses that create the interior furnishings of the luxury liners also work on the cruise ships of Meyer Werft.

However, this is only part of the expenditure of the East Frisian and Papenburg shipyards for their suppliers. The nationwide figures may serve as a comparison: In Germany there are around 400 supplying maritime industrial and service companies. Around 68,000 people work for them - around three times more than at all German shipyards themselves. Numerous suppliers are based in North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. www.ihk-emden.de: IHK and IHK district , viewed September 17, 2012.
  2. www.meyerwerft.de: About us , as seen on November 23, 2015.
  3. ^ Shipyard facilities ( memento of August 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), viewed September 17, 2012.
  4. SIAG homepage , as seen on September 17, 2013.
  5. New buildings ( Memento from October 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Homepage Ferus Smit , viewed September 17, 2012.
  7. www.noz.de of July 6, 2006: Supplier companies for the shipyards are in good shape , as seen on September 17, 2012.
  8. cms.igmetall-kueste.de: Employment, order situation and prospects in German shipbuilding (PDF file) (status: 2014), viewed September 17, 2012.