Aalborg Shipyard

The Danish Aalborg Værft ( Aalborg shipyard) existed from 1912 to 1988 in Aalborg.

Particulars

The company was founded in 1912 by the brothers Stuhr as P.Ph. Stuhr's Maskin -og Skibsbyggeri ( P.Ph. Stuhr's machinery and shipbuilding). The yard was designed from the beginning to the industrial machinery and steel shipbuilding and began after the end of World War I with the manufacture of marine boilers. In the 1920s, the company experienced during the global shipbuilding crisis in financial difficulties, prompting the City of Aalborg took over the company in 1927 and the yard converted to joint-stock company A / S Aalborg Skibsværft ( Aalborg Shipyard AG). In the 1930s, the company was then as A / S Aalborg Maskin -og Skibsbyggeri ( Aalborg machinery and shipbuilding AG). 1937 took over the shipping company J. Lauritzen the shipyard. In the following decades, the shipyard became the largest employer in the region and in 1968 the work of the shipyards in Aalborg, Frederikshavn Helsingør and is under the umbrella of the joint coordination company DAN- Værft A / S on 1 January 1987, the Aalborg were Værft which Frederikshavn Værft and from 1983 acting only as a repair operation Helsingør Skibsværft together under the umbrella of the Lauritzen group to Danyard A / S. The following year, the operation closed its doors in Aalborg, but it went more follow companies ( Danyard Aalborg, Aalborg boiler, a steel construction company and other subsequent users ) out of it. In 2005, finally all the buildings and equipment of the former shipyard site canceled up to a machine shop. The dry dock will continue to operate as a repair yard of Danyard Aalborg.

• Former shipyard ( Denmark)
• Aalborg Kommune