Shipyard Rudolf Meier & Sons
| Rudolf Meier & Sons | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1920 |
| resolution | 1984 |
| Seat | Hamburg |
| Branch | Shipbuilding, ship repair |
The shipyard Rudolf Meier & Söhne was a repair yard founded in Hamburg-Altenwerder in 1920 , which was renamed the Altenwerder shipyard in 1984.
history
The company started repairing ships in Altenwerder . Ship conversions were added later, and from 1925 new small ships were also built here.
Building program
From 1957 to the 1980s, many small passenger ships , river ferries, work boats, pontoons, launches and transport barges were built for Africa, mainly for Ghana and Nigeria, as well as a few fire boats for Arab countries. A floating petrol station was built for BP.
This is how the sounding boat Reinhard Woltmann (1954), the tugboat Groden (1958) for the WSA Cuxhaven , the tug Luna (1961) for Danish accounts and the barge Hein Stahmer (1965) for electricity and port construction in Hamburg were built here. With construction number 130 (Taucherprahm for Tripoli), the new building activities of Rudolf Meier & Sons ended in 1981.
In 1984 the company changed its name to Altenwerder Schiffswerft.
Relocation to the Reiherstieg
In the run-up to the construction of the Altenwerder container terminal , the move to the Reiherstieg took place .
Ship conversions and repairs began here in the first few years, followed by expansion to include steel construction in 1988 . Today, in addition to ship repairs, the company focuses on the construction and manufacture of flood protection systems , renovation of weir and lock systems , new construction and renovation of pontoon systems and special steel constructions.