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Volkswerft (German:Volkswerft Stralsund GmbH) is ashipyard in the Hanseatic city ofStralsund on theStrelasund. It is part of theGerman Hegemann-group.
The Volkswerft was founded in 1948 asIngenieurbau Ges.m.b.H.. On April 25 the first trawler was delivered and on June 15, 1948 theVEB Volkswerft Stralsund was registered.
From 1948 till 1953 the shipyard produced 196 ships, all of them to be used forreparation payments to the Soviet Union.
In the following years, the Volkswerft produced trawlers for the Soviet and other fleets. In October 1957, the first ship built for a fleet not pertaining to theEastern Bloc was delivered toIceland. In 1973,Lloyd's of London saw the Volkswerft as number one in the production of trawlers worldwide.
After 1990, the Volkswerft was privatized two times, first asVolkswerft Stralsund GmbH becoming part of theVulkan-Gruppe (Bremen) in 1993. In 1998 it became part of the Maersk group, Maersk having paid 25 millionDM to theTreuhand.
The yard is completely modernized by now, including a large shipbuilding hall and a 230 m (now 275 m length) ship lift to launch the ships. Container ships (2,500 class) are produced for the Mærsk fleet. They have a size of 2,900-3,000 TEU. Supply vessels and cable-laying vessels are also produced.
In 2016, the yard was purchased byGenting Hong Kong and folded into the newly formedMV Werften group with two other German shipbuilders.[1] In 2022, the company failed for bankruptcy. Since then, different companies are based at the former shipyard facilities, now owned by the City of Stralsund. For example, the scrapping company Leviathan GmbH from Bremen is planning to scrap ships here.[2]
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