Category: Shipbuilding

tkMS with a new uncertain (?) future

tkMS with a new uncertain (?) future

Gepostet von | 21 Dec 2022 | , , | 0

Last week's public holiday with the christening of two submarines and the presence of two heads of government at the shipyard ended with a touch of melancholy for the Kiel-based submarine builder tkMS - thyssenkrupp Marine Systems. According to information published by Handelsblatt, the management is in talks with financial investors about possible shareholdings. This could point to a spin-off of tkMS. The Handelsblatt newspaper outlines the path to a spin-off from the Thyssen-Krupp Group with an IPO via the acquisition of a minority position by an investor. According to the Handelsblatt, candidates could be the European investors CVC and Triton as well as KKR and Carlyle from the USA. The...

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Double baptism for Singapore in Kiel

Double baptism for Singapore in Kiel

Gepostet von | 14 Dec 2022 | , , , | 0

It is certainly not the first ship christening for the former First Mayor of Hamburg. Today, Olaf Scholz attended the christening of two submarines as Federal Chancellor. In front of 350 guests, Ho Ching, the wife of the Singaporean Prime Minister, christened the submarines "Impeccable" and "Illustrious". The pair are build numbers two and three of four type 218SG submarines being built by thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (tkMS) for the Singapore Ministry of Defence. tkMS submarine family for Singapore expands Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who greeted the naming ceremony with a 'Moin-Moin', referred in his speech to the German Chancellor's recent visit to Singapore...

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USA: Two submarine keels in a fortnight

USA: Two submarine keels in a fortnight

Gepostet von | 12 Dec 2022 | , , , | 0

Some do Christmas shopping - others lay the keels of two Virginia-class attack submarines in the space of 14 days! At the end of November, Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) in Hampton Roads, Virginia, performed the ceremonial keel authentication for the 27th Virginia-class attack submarine. SSN 800 is to bear the name "USS Arkansas" in future. Further north-east, 700 kilometres away, at the Electric Boat Division (GDEB) of General Dynamics Corporation in Quonset Point/Rhode Island, construction of the "USS Arizona" (SSN 803), the 30th boat in the Virginia class, began in the same way at the beginning of December. Teamwork The two specialised shipyards are cooperating on the modular...

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MV Werften: "Global One" sold to Disney Cruise Line

MV Werften: "Global One" sold to Disney Cruise Line

Gepostet von | 17 Nov 2022 | , , | 0

The world's largest, but still unfinished cruise ship "Global One" has been sold to Disney Cruise Line - a company of The Walt Disney Company - and will be completed in Wismar, where it is located in the shipbuilding hall. This was announced at the shipyard on Thursday by the insolvency administrator of the MV Werften Group, Dr Christoph Morgen, partner in the nationwide law firm Brinkmann & Partner. He explained: "Today is a very good day for the shipbuilders in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and for the maritime supply industry in northern Germany. Several hundred former and current employees of MV Werften, colleagues from the Meyer Group and numerous other employees from the shipbuilding...

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New drives: Bulk carrier with "Hard Sail" underway

New drives: Bulk carrier with "Hard Sail" underway

Gepostet von | 17 Nov 2022 | , , , | 0

The Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) reports on the first successful test voyage with the environmentally friendly "Hard Sail" auxiliary propulsion system on its bulk carrier "Shofu Maru" with a payload weight of 100,000 tonnes (dwt). On its maiden voyage from Japan to Australia to bunker coal and back to the island state, the 235-metre-long ship used the approximately 52-metre-high sail made of fibre-reinforced plastic, which is permanently installed in front of the cargo hatches and can be extended in four 15-metre tracks, to support the conventional propulsion system. Wind Challenger Based on a university research project, the concept for the so-called Wind Challenger has been under development for over a decade. Today it is an automated...

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