Federal government receives contract for Warnemünde shipyard

Created: 06/28/2022, 18:53

The federal government has been awarded the contract to purchase the insolvent shipyard.

The Bundeswehr's naval arsenal, which is responsible for maintaining the ships of the German Navy, is to be located on the site.

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Breathe a sigh of relief in Rostock and also in the state government.

After the shipyards in Wismar and Stralsund, a buyer has now also been found for the third location of the MV shipyards in Warnemünde.

Rostock - The federal government has been awarded the contract to purchase the shipyard in Rostock-Warnemünde.

This was announced by the insolvency administrator of MV Werften, Christoph Morgen, on Tuesday in Warnemünde.

The naval arsenal of the Bundeswehr is to be located there, which is responsible for the maintenance of the ships of the German Navy.

In the relatively short term, 500 jobs would be secured or created there.

The transfer company will last until October.

Sustainable interest of the Bundeswehr

Exclusive final negotiations with the Ministry of Defense would still have to be held with the federal government, and there were no longer any talks with other applicants.

The parliamentary scrutiny also applies.

Morgen did not give any details, for example about the selling price.

He expected the deal to be finalized by the end of next week.

The State Secretary in the Defense Ministry, Margaretha Sudhof, emphasized the Bundeswehr's sustained interest in the location.

"The Bundeswehr is not a locust now." But there must also be a commitment from the state and city.

In the end, it's about the operational capability of the German Navy.

The concept of the location must be presented in a plausible way, otherwise there would be no approval for it.

"There's still a long way to go," said Sudhof.

She did not name a possible date for the start of work for the naval arsenal.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Economics Minister Reinhard Meyer welcomed the decision of the insolvency administrator.

"The award creates a long-term perspective for the people on site that secures work." The international security situation means a growing need for regular maintenance and unscheduled repairs in the Navy.

What will become of the cruise ship "Global 2"?

Along with Wismar and Stralsund, the Warnemünde shipyard previously belonged to the MV shipyard group, which has been insolvent since mid-January.

At the beginning of June, the submarine builder Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) in Kiel bought the Wismar shipyard and plans to build military ships there from 2024.

The shipyard in Stralsund was bought by the city to develop a maritime business park.

In the dock of the Warnemünde shipyard is still the cruise ship "Global 2".

According to the information, more than 17,000 tons of steel have already been installed.

What will happen to it is not yet clear.

"We still have a lot of clean-up work to do here," said Morgen.

The concept envisages that the site will be completely cleaned up in six months at the latest.

dpa