Mayor Stralsund: At least 1000 jobs on shipyard premises
Created: 01/15/2022, 08:54
Stralsund's Lord Mayor has not only had big plans for the shipyard in the Hanseatic city since the MV shipyards went bankrupt.
He relies on an old friend.
Stralsund - According to the plans of the mayor of the Hanseatic city, there should be significantly more jobs on the site of the insolvent MV shipyards in Stralsund.
"The minimum goal there must be 1000 in any case," said Alexander Badrow of the German Press Agency.
According to the CDU politician, several companies are to be located on the site that the city wants to buy.
Most recently, the shipyard in Stralsund had 230 employees from the previous 540, according to union information after job cuts.
It is not realistic that the city will immediately create the desired number of jobs after the bankruptcy of the MV shipyard group.
"But we have to start with the theme, develop that, and then I'm confident we'll get the number," Badrow said.
He hinted that negotiations with Nordic Yards about a settlement are quite concrete.
When asked about the status, he said, "I wouldn't dare to do it either" without a larger partner.
Even after the insolvency of the shipyard group, he considers a preliminary contract for the purchase in February to be realistic.
Negotiations had already taken place before the bankruptcy because Genting - the Asian parent company of MV Werften - had made it clear that he saw no prospects for the location.
The MV shipyards with locations in Wismar, Rostock and Stralsund and specializing in the construction of cruise ships filed for bankruptcy last Monday.
Genting got into trouble because of the crisis in the cruise industry as a result of the corona pandemic.
The city has already budgeted more than 10 million euros for the purchase of the land.
According to Badrow, he expects financial support from the federal and state governments for the repair of the shipyard facilities.
For example, the ship lift had to be repaired.
He did not give an exact amount for this.
It was “in any case” in six figures.
The federal and state governments have signaled their support.
"Of course, we already have good opportunities for investments through the first anchor tenant, which are absolutely necessary at first." Which in turn probably means Nordic Yards.
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Before Genting, the company owned the shipyard locations in Wismar, Rostock and Stralsund and, according to the media, is again interested in the latter two shipyards.
It had mainly built converter platforms for offshore wind energy until there were no orders.
Genting took over the shipyards in 2016.
Badrow believes that offshore wind energy is gaining in importance and that it is therefore "worth investing in topics such as renewable energies in Stralsund".
According to Nordic Yards, it currently offers engineering services for the construction of ships and offshore facilities and has mobile teams for modernization and repair services, among other things.
According to Badrow's ideas, the settlement of several companies should avoid too great a dependence of the location on one company.
In addition, Germany cannot impress with cheap steel, energy or personnel costs, so it must be about innovation.
"That means we constantly need new ideas that others don't have." He referred to the company Ostseestaal, which is already implementing this not far from the shipyard.
Ostseestaal is a specialist in the 3D cold forming of large sheet metal for ships, buildings or wind energy and builds electric solar ships with a subsidiary.
dpa
