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MV Werften starts with pro- duction of Crystal Endeavor.

Photo courtesy ©Irish Ferries

Kiel based yard TKMS (Thyssen

Krupp Marine Systems) builds sub- marines for Egypt. The picture shows one sub on test trial in the Baltic Sea.

Irish Continental Group plc (ICG) new cruise ferry will accommodate 1,800 passengers and crew, with capacity for 5,610 freight lane me- ters, which provides the capability to carry 330 freight units per sailing. vessel for both the companies involved are a stroke of luck, must be open – nu- merous negative headlines about unpaid invoices and probable illegal used tropical wood went around the world.

Only in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and

Niedersachsen employees are searched in big numbers. In all other German shipyard locations the workforce is smaller. This is the result of the yearly questionnaire an- swered by the workers’ council on behalf of the labor union IG Metall. According to them 15,800 employees are working at 37 German shipyards – as was the case in previous years since 2013.

“The German shipbuilding industry maintains its position in the heavy seas of the worldwide shipbuilding. But it cannot escape the negative in? uence of the world market,” says Thorsten Ludwig of the

Struktur- and Personalentwicklung (AgS) agency who is the author of the study.

In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern alone are about 2450 people busy in the large yards.

Thrustmaster’s complete line of mechanical and hydraulic azimuthing thrusters are trusted

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