Meyer Werft
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| Industry | Shipbuilding |
| Founded | 1795 |
| Headquarters | Papenburg, Germany |
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Key people
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Bernard Meyer, CEO |
| Products | cruise ships tankers livestock carriers ferries research vessels |
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Number of employees
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~5,150 (2015) |
| Parent | Meyer Neptun Group |
| Website | www.meyerwerft.com |
The Meyer Werft GmbH is one of the major German shipyards, headquartered in Papenburg at the river Ems. Founded in 1795 and starting with small wooden vessels, today Meyer Werft is one of world's leading builders of luxury passenger ships. Altogether about 700 ships of different types have been built at the yard. Its "Dockhalle 2" is the largest shipbuilding hall and the building with the fifth largest usable space in the world.
Meyer Werft has been owned and managed by the Meyer family for six generations. Since 1997, it has been part of the Meyer Neptun Group together with Neptun Werft in Rostock.
The shipyard is an anchor on the European Route of Industrial Heritage. [1]
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History
The shipyard was founded at the beginning of 1795 by Willm Rolf Meyer as a wharf for the construction of small wooden vessels. Josef Lambert Meyer started the construction of iron ships in 1874.[2] Until 1920 there were more than 20 dockyards in the Papenburg area. Today, Meyer Werft is the only remaining shipyard in Papenburg. For more than six generations, it has been a privately held and family-owned company.
Company
Meyer Werft gained international recognition through the construction of roll on/roll off ferries, passenger ferries, gasoline tankers, container ships, livestock ferries and most recently luxury cruise ships.
Meyer is one of the largest and most modern shipyards in the world with 2500 employees, and home to the by far largest roofed dry docks in the world. The first covered dock was inaugurated in 1987 and was 370 meters long, 101,5 meters wide and 60 meters high. In 1990/91 the dock was extended by an additional 100 meters. In 2000, a second covered dock was built, which is announced to be extended to a full length of 504 meters, a width of 125 meters and height of 75 meters in order to compete with Asian shipyards. Meyer Werft will as a result of this be able to build three cruise ships a year.[3] Due to its upstream location on the river Ems, the giant ships to be delivered have to make a 36 km voyage to the Dollart bay and which each time attracts thousands of spectators. Up until the completion of the Ems river barrier ("Emssperrwerk") in 2002, the journey was only possible at high tides.
In August 2014, Meyer Werft and the Government of Finland agreed to acquire STX Finland and the Turku shipyard from STX Europe (STX Finland's other shipyards in Helsinki and Rauma were previously sold to other buyers). The Turku shipyard is an important builder of cruise ships, and five of the 10 largest cruise ships in the world have been built there. The shipyard, which will be 70% owned by Meyer Werft and 30% owned by the state-owned Finnish Industry Investment, will be renamed from STX Finland Oy to Meyer Turku Oy.[4][5][6]
As of 2014[update], current cruise liner projects include the Quantum class of cruise ships for Royal Caribbean International and the Breakaway Plus class of ships for Norwegian Cruise Line.
In April 2015, Meyer Werft decided to acquire the last 30% of Meyer Turku Shipyard Oy from Finnish Industry Investment.
Ships built at Meyer Werft GmbH
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A large variety of ships have been built at Meyer Werft, including car carriers, cargo ships, container ships, cruise ships, ferries, fishing vessels, gas carriers, lightvessels, paddlesteamers, passenger ships and Seebäderschiffs.
List of shipyards
Meyer Werft (located at Papenburg)- Neptun Werft (located at Rostock)
Meyer Turku (located at Turku)
References
Hans Jürgen Witthöft, Meyer Werft- Innovative shipbuilding from Papenburg, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg
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- ↑ Meyer Werft Website, "Triton"
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- ↑ http://www.meyerwerft.de/en/meyerwerft_de/medien/presseticker/pressemitteilung_detail_17933.jsp
- ↑ http://ts.fi/uutiset/talous/660009/Valtio+ja+Meyer+Werft+ostavat+Turun+telakan++kauppahinta+ei+julkinen
- ↑ http://www.meyerwerft.de/en/meyerwerft_de/medien/presseticker/pressemitteilung_detail_17472.jsp
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Meyer Werft, Papenburg. |
- Homepage of Meyer Werft
- Homepage of Neptun Werft
- Homepage of Meyer Turku
- Meyer Werft Shipyard in Google Maps
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