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SHIPBUILDING: GERMANY

Submarine U35 (the bigger sub on the pier) of the German Navy during its build at the

Kiel shipyard TKMS.

Nordic Yards delivered an innovative jack-up vessel to Denmark’s

DBB Jack-Up Service.

for Royal Caribbean International, a mammoth of a level is good for up to 2016. contract includes voyage and port repairs which will be ship that is 348 m long and weighs in at 168,888 GT. conducted by Blohm + Voss’s “Flying Squad.”

The smallest sea-going vessels were delivered by the Ship Repair & Conversion Overall, ship repair is a billion euro business for Ger-

Fassmer Shipyard in Berne to the Waterway Police in The repair sector is a growing part of Germany’s man shipyards, and the main focus for ship repair in

Schleswig-Holstein. shipyards, a fact that was exempli? ed last year when 2015 lies quite clearly at the North-Sea ports. Ham-

Classical freight and container vessels have only been Hamburg based shipyard Blohm + Voss announced a burg, Bremerhaven and Emden have the capacity for built in Flensburg and Leer in 2014. The FSG yard de- master agreement with global cruise leader Carnival. maintenance repair and conversions. livered the heavy-lift freighter “Rolldock Storm,” and Blohm + Voss is, with this agreement, the only north- It is a totally different picture on the Baltic Sea coast, “Ferus Smit,” and Leer completed six heavy-lift ves- ern European shipyard contracted to Carnival Group where the sector has decreased continuously since sels late last year. The ? rst of these vessels, the “Nor- for repair services. Besides docking in Hamburg, the 1995. Today there are signi? cant capacities for the re- dana Sky,” was launched in February 2015.

Offshore

Nordic Yards and Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) each boast innovative new offshore sector build- ing projects. The shipyard in Mecklenburg-Vorpom- mern has recently delivered the offshore service ves- sel “Wind Server,” while the FSG yard is building two

WE KNOW THE DRILL well-intervention vessels with a 2016 scheduled deliv- ery. Overall though, there has been a slight decrease for new orders in the offshore segment.

What does the future hold for Brazil? Its offshore industry is developing at “Here, one can feel [...] the oil price, and many proj- lightning speed, reaching farther and drilling deeper than ever before. With ects are affected,” said Gerhard Carlsson, VSM market- so many unknowns ahead, crews that have experience and skill are becoming ing. Offshore projects are under construction currently increasingly valuable. And the crew on board the PSV Prion? Jackpot.

in Kiel, Wismar, Warnemünde and Bremerhaven. Nor- dic Yards in Wismar is building two rescue and special

Watch the ? lm at STORIESFROMSEA.COM ships for the Russian offshore business. FSG (Flens- burger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft), is currently the second shipyard at the Baltic Sea, which manufactures special vessels for oil and gas extraction. Their order intake 80 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • APRIL 2015

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