Category: Shipbuilding

Start of firing of the first fleet service boat

Start of firing of the first fleet service boat

Posted by | 22 Nov 2024 | , , , | 0

Naval Vessels Lürssen (NVL) starts the production phase for the fleet service boats The fleet service boats OKER, ALSTER and OSTE, which have been in service for more than 30 years, will be replaced by the new units and will be available to the German Navy from 2029. Together with Annette Lehnigk-Emden, President of the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), Flotilla Admiral Andreas Czerwinski, Head of the BAAINBw's Maritime Department, and Lürssen Managing Director Justus Reinke, Tim Wagner, CEO of NVL, today pressed the start button to start up the plasma cutting system for the symbolic first steel cut. The order was placed with NVL in 2021. Construction of the technologically highly complex new type will...

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Japan - Large ore ship receives rotor sails

Japan - Large ore ship receives rotor sails

Posted by | 17 Nov 2024 | , , , | 0

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Elsflether Werft - judgements pronounced

Elsflether Werft - judgements pronounced

Posted by | 11 Nov 2024 | , , | 0

In the fraud proceedings involving the former managers of the liquidated Elsflether Werft AG, the Oldenburg Regional Court handed down the last verdicts for the time being on 1 October 2024. A former shipyard board member must go to prison. The proceedings involved corruption, fraud, breach of trust and bribery, among other things. The trial was originally scheduled to last 40 days. However, due to the extensive confessions of the two defendants, fewer witnesses had to be questioned so that the judgements could be pronounced after just 18 trial days. Main defendants The former Elsfleth shipyard in the district of Wesermarsch had been commissioned with the refurbishment of the training sailing ship "Gorch Fock", among other things. The costs had exploded...

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Co-operation between A&R and Fassmer

Co-operation between A&R and Fassmer

Posted by | 8 Nov 2024 | , , , | 0

The further cooperation was formally announced at the EURONAVAL maritime trade fair in Paris on 5 November 2024. The signed partnership is not new territory for either shipyard; both shipyards already support each other with the multi-purpose vessels for the Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport. The first multi-purpose vessel is currently moored at the pier at Fassmer and is being fitted out by Abeking & Rasmussen. A 105 metre long hydrographic vessel (BHO) for the Indonesian navy is on its way from Indonesia to the Weser. This is also a joint project between the two shipyards.

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