The Kiel-based shipyard thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (tkMS) has a new Managing Director. At an extraordinary meeting, the Supervisory Board of tkMS confirmed its previous Chairman, Oliver Burkhard, as the successor to Dr Rolf Wirtz. Oliver Burkhard will move to the fjord on 1 May 2022. He is no stranger there. In his...
With today's keel laying, the platform production of the last of a total of five new Class 130 corvettes for the German Navy is in full swing. Due to the pandemic, the keel laying ceremony at the Peene shipyard took place in the smallest possible project circle in the presence of representatives of the client and the sponsor city. The new corvettes are being built under the leadership of the...
On 28 January, the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) took delivery of the frigate "Rheinland-Pfalz" (F 225) from ARGE F125 (Arbeitsgemeinschaft F125), which is made up of thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (tkMS) from Kiel as the lead company and the Naval Vessels Lürssen (NVL) Group. Until the commissioning by...
A strict hygiene concept enabled the last of four corvettes to be handed over to the Israeli navy on time The German shipyard industry has successfully defied the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown. Although the measures of the Infection Protection Act have presented the entire economy with enormous challenges, the consortium of the Kiel shipyards Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems and...
The naming ceremony for the S 44, the fourth type 209/144mod submarine for the Egyptian Navy, took place at the end of September at thyssenkrupp in Kiel. The Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Navy attended the ceremony at the shipyard, where three Meko A 200 frigates were also ordered in 2019 following approval by the German government.
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