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Aker MTW
Meyer Wismar (former '' VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar'', ''Aker MTW Werft'', ''Wadan Yards MTW'', ''Nordic Yards Wismar'') is a German shipbuilding company, headquartered in Wismar. Since June 1, 1990 it has been part of the Deutschen Maschinen- und Schiffbau AG (DMS AG), 2009–2016 was part of the Nordic Yards Holding GmbH, and since 2016 is part of the Lloyd Werft Group. In June 2022 Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has acquired the Wismar site of MV Werften. In November 2022, a lease agreement was signed with Meyer Werft to complete the Global Dream with the yard renamed Meyer Wismar. History The ship repair yard was founded on April 27, 1946 as a Red Army ship repair shop, and was founded in Wismar, which was handed over to the German state administration on January 1, 1947. 1951 to 1990: VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar After the takeover of the old ''Hanse shipyard'' , the integration of the site of the former "Hafenschmiede" and the boatyard "Schröder und Schackow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volkseigener Betrieb
The Publicly Owned Enterprise (german: Volkseigener Betrieb; abbreviated VEB) was the main legal form of industrial enterprise in East Germany. They were all publicly owned and were formed after Nationalisation#Germany, mass nationalisation between 1945 and the early 1960s, and the handing back in 1954 of some 33 enterprises previously taken by the Soviet Union as War reparations, reparations. The managing director of a VEB was called a plant or works manager (German: ''Werkleiter'', ''Werkdirektor'' or ''Betriebsdirektor''). He or she was assisted by the first secretary of the factory party organisation (''Betriebsparteiorganisation'') of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, SED, and the chairman of the factory trade union (''Betriebsgewerkschaftsleitung''). Subordinate to them were roles such as "Chief Accountant" and "Technical Director". VEBs were initially vertical integration, vertically integrated into units called Associations of Publicly Owned Enterprises (''Vereinigung V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bashkiriya At Quay 19 In Port Of Odessa Circa 1989
The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkortostan ( ba, Башҡортостан Республикаһы, Bashqortostan Respublikahy; russian: Республика Башкортостан, Respublika Bashkortostan),; russian: Респу́блика Башкортоста́н, r=Respublika Bashkortostan, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə bəʂkərtɐˈstan also unofficially called Bashkiria (russian: Башкирия, tr. Bashkiriya), is a republic of Russia located between the Volga and the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. It covers and has a population of 4 million. It is Russia's 7th most populous federal subject and most populous republic. Its capital and largest city is Ufa. Bashkortostan was established on .Национально-государственное устройство Башкортостана, 1917–1925 гг: Общее введение и Том 1 // Билал Хамитович Юлдашбаев, Китап, 2002, , 9785295029165Хрестоматия по ис ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Shota Rustaveli
MS ''Shota Rustaveli'' was a cruise ship, built in 1968 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany for the Soviet Union's Black Sea Shipping Company and named after the Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli. After the fall of the Soviet Union she was handed to Ukraine. In 2000, she was sold to Kaalbye Group and renamed MS ''Assedo''. In 2003, she was scrapped at Alang, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so .... References Cruise ships Ships built in East Germany Passenger ships of the Soviet Union East Germany–Soviet Union relations Ships of Ukraine 1966 ships Ships built in Wismar Ships of Black Sea Shipping Company {{cruise-ship-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CTC Line Shota Rustaveli & Tug Camp Cove At Overseas Terminal Circular Quay Sydney
CTC may refer to: Colleges * Central Texas College, US * Chattahoochee Technical College, Georgia, US * Cincinnati Technical College, later Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, Ohio * City Technology College, a type of English school Companies * CTC (TV station), Australia * CTC Media, owner of STS channel * Calcutta Tramways Company, India * Cambridge Temperature Concepts, a UK company * Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, Ontario * Canadian Tire Corporation, Toronto Stock Exchange symbol * Ceylon Tobacco Company, Sri Lanka * Chiba Television Broadcasting Corporation, Japan * China Telecommunications Corporation * Computer Terminal Corporation, former name of the US company Datapoint * Crimson Trace Corporation, US company * Itochu Techno-Solutions, a Japanese company * The Contemporary Theater Company, US Government * California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, US * California Transportation Commission * Canadian Tourism Commission * Canadian Transport Commissio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world, and shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. The official language is Bengali, one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-European language family. Bangladesh forms the sovereign part of the historic and ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, which was divided during the Partition of India in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chittagong
Chittagong ( /ˈtʃɪt əˌɡɒŋ/ ''chit-uh-gong''; ctg, চিটাং; bn, চিটাগং), officially Chattogram ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh after Dhaka and third largest city in Bengal region. It is the administrative seat of the eponymous division and district. It hosts the busiest seaport on the Bay of Bengal. The city is located on the banks of the Karnaphuli River between the Chittagong Hill Tracts and the Bay of Bengal. The Greater Chittagong Area had a population of more than 5.2 million in 2022. In 2020, the city area had a population of more than 3.9 million. One of the world's oldest ports with a functional natural harbor for centuries, Chittagong appeared on ancient Greek and Roman maps, including on Ptolemy's world map. It was located on the southern branch of the Silk Road. In the 9th century, merchants from the Abbasid Caliphate established a trading post in Chittagong. The port fell to the Muslim co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Taras Shevchenko (1967)
:''This is about the cruise ship. For the river cruise ship, see T. G. Shevchenko (1991).'' MS ''Taras Shevchenko'' was a cruise ship owned by the Soviet Union's Black Sea Shipping Company. She was built in 1966 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany. She was scrapped in 2005 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The ship was named after Ukrainian painter and poet Taras Shevchenko. History ''Taras Shevchenko'' was the third built by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft for the Soviet Union. Originally she was planned as the last ship of the series, but the Soviet Union's national shipping company Morflot decided to order two additional sisters, which made her the middle sister. She was delivered to the Black Sea Shipping Company on 26 April 1966 and placed on cruise traffic. Sometime during her Soviet Union career the ''Taras Shevchenko'' was rebuilt with a larger forward superstructure. In 1989 she was chartered to Jahn Reisen for a five-year period. The Soviet Union broke up duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taras Shevchenko Moored At Quay In Sukhumi In June 1970 , a city in Jambyl Region, Kazakhstan
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Taras may refer to: Geography * Taras (ancient city) of Magna Graecia, modern-day Taranto * Taras, Iran, a village in Tehran province * Taras, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland * Taraš, a village in Vojvodina, Serbia * Taras, Kazakhstan, a village in Almaty Region People * Taras (name), a Ukrainian male given name * Taras (surname) Other uses * Taras (mythology), in Greek mythology the son of Poseidon and the nymph Satyrion See also * Taraz Taraz ( kz, Тараз, تاراز, translit=Taraz ; known to Europeans as Talas) is a city and the administrative center of Jambyl Region in Kazakhstan, located on the Talas (river), Talas (Taraz) River in the south of the country near the borde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltic Shipping Company
The Baltic Sea Shipping Company or B.S.S.C (russian: ОАО Балтийское морское пароходство, БМП) is a Russian sea transport engaged in the business of oil products storage via rail wagons within Russian link-able terminals, and tanker ship along the inland waterways and coastal seas of European Russia. The company is headquartered in Saint Petersburg and operates in the Baltic Sea. It was founded in 1835. In the Soviet Union it was the largest steamship company with about two hundred registered vessels. In November 1992, it was transformed into a joint stock company. History Background The Baltic Sea Shipping Company (BMP) traces its history from the Saint Petersburg- Lübeck Society of Steamships, founded in 1830. On January 26 (February 8), 1918, the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR adopted a decree on the nationalization of the sea and river fleet, in accordance with which the Main Directorate of Water Transport of the Supreme Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Marco Polo
MS ''Marco Polo'' was a cruise ship originally built as ocean liner ''Aleksandr Pushkin'' in 1965 by Mathias-Thesen-Werft, East Germany for the Soviet Union's Baltic Shipping Company. After major alterations and additions, the ship sailed as ''Marco Polo'' for Orient Lines from 1993 to 2008. It last sailed for UK-based Cruise & Maritime Voyages and its German subsidiary Transocean Tours. After Cruise & Maritime Voyages entered administration in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was sold at auction by CW Kellock & Co. Ltd. for US$2,770,000 on 22 October 2020; it was subsequently resold and in January 2021 was beached at Alang, India and scrapped. Design and construction ''Aleksandr Pushkin'' was constructed at VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft in Wismar, East Germany. She was the second ship of the (also referred to as "poet" or "writer" class), named after the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Polo Port Of Tallinn 2 August 2012
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Ivan Franko-class Passenger Ship
The ''Ivan Franko''-class passenger ship (project 301, in Germany known as Seefa 750) was a class of Soviet Union, Soviet ocean liners and cruise ships, operated by the Baltic State Shipping Company (BGMP) and Black Sea Shipping Company (ChMMP or BLASCO). The five Soviet ships ''Ivan Franko'', ''Aleksandr Pushkin'', ''Taras Shevchenko'', ''Shota Rustaveli'' and ''Mikhail Lermontov'' were constructed in 1963–1972 by the East German company ''VEB Mathias-Thesen Werft'', in Wismar. The class was named after its lead ship, which took its name from the Ukrainians, Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko. The last remaining vessel, the ''Aleksandr Pushkin'' – last known as ''Marco Polo'', was retired in 2020 and beached in Alang, India for scrapping on January 13, 2021. Description and construction The ''Ivan Franko'' class surpassed the earlier as Germany's (in both parts of Germany) largest passenger ships after World War II. With a length of the ''Ivan Franko'' vessels were longer than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
