Nordic Yards Wismar
The shipyard Nordic Yards (formerly Wadan Yards MTW, Aker MTW Werft ) in Wismar is a compact shipyard company Nordic Yards Holding GmbH, whose original name VEB Mathias -Thesen -Werft Wismar was dedicated to the 1944 massacres in Sachsenhausen concentration camp Communists Mathias theses. It was built in the years after the Second World War in several steps in the Wismar Bay.
The shipyard employs about 700 people yet, before the crisis in the shipbuilding, it was 1300. It is thus one of the largest employers of Wismar. The newly built plants in Wismar includes the covered building dock, the hall is 72 m high, 155 m wide and 395 m long.
Since the summer of 2009, the shipyard is one of Nordic Yards.
History
On April 27, 1946, a ship repair factory of the Red Army was founded in Wismar, that was passed on 1 January 1947 at the German National Administration. After taking over the old Hanseatic wharf, the integration of the former site of the " port forge" and the shipyard " Schröder and Schackow " the resulting nationally-owned enterprise was to October 31, 1951 renamed VEB Mathias -Thesen -Werft Wismar ( VEB MTW). In 1959 the summary of MTW and other shipbuilding companies in the Association of Publicly Owned Enterprises ( VVB ) shipbuilding. The general group- like in the industrial sector of the GDR observed training organization structures sat down in 1979 with the conversion of the VVB shipbuilding in the Combine shipbuilding Rostock continued.
Since the 1950s, a variety of ocean-going vessels for the commercial fishing fleet and the GDR, other countries of the CMEA and the international market has been made .
From 1982 to 1985 extensive modernization took place to bring the yard to the current state of technology.
In the wake of economic reforms in the GDR, the Mathias -Thesen -Werft Wismar GmbH was founded on 1 June 1990. MTW now belonged to the German machinery and shipbuilding AG ( DMS). After renaming in MTW shipyard GmbH, MTW now for marine technology Wismar, followed in August 1992, the acquisition by the Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG.
1994-1998 found modernization rather than by investment of about 1 billion DM, although the Bremer Vulkan was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1996. On 1 May 1998, the Norwegian company Aker RGI took over the shipyard, which has since named Aker MTW. Since about the integration of the Kvaerner Group in the corporate group consisting Aker Yards (2002) co-operate the former Kvaerner Warnow Werft in Rostock GmbH and Aker MTW Werft under the name Aker Ostsee.
2008 Aker Yards sold a majority stake in a Russian financial investor. The transaction occurred retroactively as of January 1, 2008, and since September 22 operate the yards as Wadan Yards.
On 5 June 2009 a German company parts of Wadan Yards Group AS, including the Wadan Yards MTW GmbH, Wismar, petition the district court of Schwerin. For administrator of Schwerin lawyer Marc Odebrecht, a member of the firm Brinkmann & Partner has been appointed. In mid-August 2009, the liquidator will present an investor who also took over the Wismar shipyard. The head of the Moscow Nord Stream offices Vitaly Jussufov (Russian: Виталий Юсуфов, English transcription: Vitaly Yusufov ), son of former Russian Energy Minister and Gazprom Board Igor Yusufov ( Игорь Юсуфов, Igor Yusufov ), acquired the assets of German Wadan parts of the company over the by called him back to life, Nordic Yards for about 40.5 million euros. The still insolvent German Wadan Yards parts are manufactured to the sale of all assets of a legal envelope through which the Wadan creditors be paid off.
In October 2009, the work was resumed in operation, but new orders were made initially. Only in 2010 could start with the construction of a designed for arctic conditions tanker type Nordic AT 19 for the Russian company MMC Norilsk Nickel worth about 100 million euros. Since 2010, the company is engaged in the offshore sector with the construction of platforms and specialized vessels. In December 2012, the shipyard received a Russian state contract to build two Icebreaking rescue and salvage vessels for the Arctic.
The director Dieter Schumann accompanied the slipping of the company, together with its employees in the insolvency and rescue maneuver which should lead out of her in his film " Wadans world." This was on 22 October 2010 as part of the 53rd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film premiered.
Products
Folding boats
As part of the production of consumer goods, among other folding kayaks were prepared at MTW. In addition to the kayaks, the hummingbird series are well recognized for its collapsible sailing, motor boats and rowing boats with the name dolphin.
From 1954 to 1990 occurred on the location canal street in Wismar about 75,000 collapsible boats that were sold not only in the GDR, but also in many other European countries and are found to this day on the water. Most commonly made with more than 16,000 units of the Hummingbird IV. At the lowest number ( probably less than 100) is the catamaran scalare 250, with 200 kg of probably the heaviest ever built folding boat!
Ships and series of shipyard
- Type of Africa
- MBC
- OBC
Rodina class project 588/BiFa Type A
JRP - Jenisseiskoje Retschnoje Parohodstwo; WORP - Wolshskoje Objedinjonnoje Retschnoje Parohodstwo; MRP - Moskowskoje Retschnoje Parohodstwo; KRP - Kamskoje Retschnoje Parohodstwo; BORP - Belomoro - Oneshskoje Retschnoje Parohodstwo; SSRP - Severo- Sapadnoje Retschnoje Parohodstwo;
Baykal - class project 646/BiFa Type B
JRP - Jenisseiskoje Retschnoje Parohodstwo; WORP - Wolshskoje Objedinjonnoje Retschnoje Parohodstwo; MRP - Moskowskoje Retschnoje Parohodstwo; KRP - Kamskoje Retschnoje Parohodstwo; BORP - Belomoro - Oneshskoje Retschnoje Parohodstwo; SSRP - Severo- Sapadnoje Retschnoje Parohodstwo;