ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | January 5, 2005 |
| Seat | Kiel , Germany |
| management | Rolf Wirtz, CEO |
| Number of employees | 3700 |
| sales | 1.2 billion euros (2010/11) |
| Branch | shipyard |
| Website | tk-marinesystems.de |
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems GmbH ( TKMS ), based in Kiel , claims to be the leading European system provider for submarines and naval ships. According to its own information (as of 2014), the company employs 3700 people and has a sales volume of around 1.2 billion euros .
background
The TKMS AG was created in 2005 as a holding company of Blohm + Voss GmbH and Howaldtswerke- German Werft GmbH (HDW).
The group of companies consisted of Blohm + Voss and Blohm + Voss Repair in Hamburg, Nordseewerke in Emden (until 2010), Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel, Nobiskrug in Rendsburg, Kockums in Sweden (until 2014) and Hellenic Shipyards in Greece.
From 2005 to December 2008 ThyssenKrupp held 75% of the shares and was the industrial leader. The private equity fund One Equity Partners (OEP) held a 25% stake. ThyssenKrupp has been the sole shareholder since January 2009. TKMS is now no longer run as a stock corporation, but as a “business unit” within the “ Industrial Solutions ” business area of ThyssenKrupp.
Focus on the military business
In April 2010 the sale of Blohm + Voss to Abu Dhabi MAR , an international shipbuilding group based in Abu Dhabi, was announced. Abu Dhabi MAR was to take over 80% each of the Hamburg companies Blohm + Voss Repair and Blohm + Voss Industries . The two companies also agreed on a partnership (50:50 joint venture), which includes the design and project management of surface naval shipbuilding. In September 2010, TKMS and Abu Dhabi MAR also reached an agreement on the sale of 75.1% of the Greek TKMS subsidiary Hellenic Shipyards .
In July 2011 ThyssenKrupp announced that the sale of Blohm + Voss would not take place. Only the civil part of HDW (as well as Hellenic Shipyards) was sold to Abu Dhabi MAR .
In December 2011 ThyssenKrupp announced the sale of the civil shipping business ( Blohm + Voss Shipyards ) to the British financial investor Star Capital Partners .
After the merger of HDW GmbH with Blohm + Voss Naval GmbH in 2012, TKMS GmbH consists of the three business areas underwater (ex HDW), surface (ex Blohm + Voss Naval) and services (for the underwater and marine surface area). The Swedish shipyard ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems AB (submarines and marine surface vessels), which was operated as the fourth business division, was sold to the Swedish Saab AB in June 2014 .
The company was part of ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG until October 2018 and was managed by the CEO as an "Operating Unit" with the three business areas mentioned. The focus here is on the interlinking of surface, underwater and service products. In October 2018, the company was spun off from Industrial Solutions and is now managed as an independent business area directly under thyssenkrupp.
In April 2016, TKMS lost to French competitor DCNS in the selection process to build twelve new submarines for Australia with an order volume of 34 billion euros . In June 2016, a total of 2,700 permanent employees and 540 temporary workers were employed at the Kiel location, plus 400 in Hamburg and 200 in Emden.
In 2017 TKMS took over Atlas Elektronik GmbH , a specialist in electronic equipment and systems for ships.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Management of the company , viewed on June 7, 2017
- ^ Company website , accessed October 10, 2013
- ^ Company website , accessed March 18, 2014
- ↑ Abu Dhabi MAR and ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems establish strategic partnership ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 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. , TKMS press release from April 14, 2010 (PDF)
- ↑ ThyssenKrupp, Abu Dhabi MAR and the Greek government secure the future for Hellenic Shipyards , ThyssenKrupp press release of September 30, 2010.
- ↑ ThyssenKrupp fails with the sale of Blohm + Voss on boerse.de
- ↑ ThyssenKrupp drives further strategic development: ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems sells civil shipbuilding to Star Capital Partners from England on thyssenkrupp.com
- ^ Frank Behling: TKMS escapes submarine deal for Kiel. In: Kiel News. April 26, 2016, accessed June 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Ulrich Metschies: Thyssenkrupp examines shipyard division. In: Kiel News. June 5, 2016, accessed June 7, 2016 .
- ↑ TKMS takes over Atlas Elektronik . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 6/2017, p. 6
