Lloyd Werft
The Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven AG is a shipyard in Bremerhaven, which was founded in 1857 as a workshop of the North German Lloyd shipping company and today in particular, performs repair, conversion and extension of large vessels. It employs 500 people on an area of 260,000 m² connection between the port and harbor Kaiser III. Ships with a maximum draft of 11.5 m can be docked.
History
The shipyard was first workshop and yard of the North German Lloyd ( NDL). In 1871 the first dock, a Doppeldock to plans by the head of the harbor Baudirektion Carl Friedrich Hanckes, inaugurated on the west side of New Haven, with the docking of the steam sailor Germany. It had to be extended to allow the twelve fast steamer of the rivers class (Elbe and others) could be docked. After the naval architect Johann Schütte 1899 had demonstrated why the just delivered fast steamer Emperor Frederick the agreed rate could not reach commissioned him Lloyd with the establishment of a marine research institute. It was built on the west side of New Haven, the results obtained here on issues of resistance and speed quickly made especially for vessels with multi-propeller drive chute to internationally recognized scientific authority.
1899 was opened by the expansion of the port and the completion of the Kaiser Kaiser Kaiser lock in the harbor the first Kaiserdock with 222 m length. It was the new fast steamer Kaiser class are docked. Due to the ever increasing passenger steamer, the construction of the Imperial Docks II was required from 1907 to 1912. It had a length of 263 m and was enough for the largest ships. With the building of Bremen and Europa, it was extended in 1931 to 335 m. In these years, the workshops were relocated from New Harbor and grouped around the Emperor docks.
The North German Lloyd merged in 1970 with the Hapag Hapag -Lloyd AG. In 1973 the shipyard was dissolved as a company and changed its name to Hapag Lloyd Werft GmbH. Then took over in 1984 the Bremer Vulkan shipyard operation and acquired its current name Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven GmbH.
After the bankruptcy of Bremer Vulkan 1996, the Lloyd shipyard became independent.
In order to repair cruise ships in the Caribbean, was opened a repair yard in the Bahamas in 2000. However, this was sold after a few months to a British company.
In 2006, the state economic development Bremen took over ( WfB ) accounted for 13.16% of the Lloyd -Werft. These are to be sold in 2013 for 4.8 million euros to BLG, which wants you to expand their business, but wants to cultivate the land.
Dockkapazitäten
The yard has two dry docks and a floating dock. About a cooperation they are since the beginning of 2013, the company German Dry Docks available.
Dock 1 ( dry dock, Kaiserdock I, Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven )
- LOA: 222.0 m
- Width: 32.0 m
- Usable internal width: 26,0 m
- Crane Capacity: 1 × 35
Dock 2 ( dry, Kaiserdock II, Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven )
- LOA: 335.0 m
- Width: 40.0 m
- Usable internal width: 35.0 m
- Crane Capacity: 1 × 1 × 50 35 t and t
Dock 3 ( Floating, Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven )
- LOA: 280.5 m
- Width: 47.0 m
- Usable internal width: 38.0 m
- Lifting capacity: 35,000 t
- Crane Capacity: 1 × 60 × 15 3 t and t
Since the enlargement of the Kaiserschleuse the Kaiserhafen III and therefore the docks of the Lloyd shipyard for vessels up to 55 meters in width is available. To use this advantage for the shipyard, a broadening of the floating dock is planned. Thus, the Lloyd Werft to adapt to the current changes in the market particularly in the cruise ship industry and the auto transporters. Furthermore, this new market for repair, overhaul ud Klass Mastering the extremely wide offshore installation vessels will be developed.