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", the resulting state-owned company was renamed ''VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar'' (VEB MTW) on October 31, 1951 . In 1959, MTW and other shipbuilding companies were merged into the ''Association of Publicly Owned Shipbuilding Companies ( VVB )'' . The development of group-like organizational structures, which can generally be observed in the industrial sector of the GDR, continued in 1979 with the conversion of VVB Schiffbau into the ''Kombinat Schiffbau Rostock'' . Since the 1950s, a large number of seagoing vessels have been manufactured for the trading and fishing fleets of the GDR, other CMEA countries and the international market. In 1960 the only new cruise ship built in East Germany, the Fritz Heckert , was launched in Wismar. Extensive modernization work took place between 1982 and 1985 to bring the shipyard up to date.1990 to 1992: Mathias-Thesen-Werft
In the course of the economic reforms in the period of reunification in the GDR, the ''VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar'' was converted into a corporation on June 1, 1990 and now operated as ''Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar GmbH'' , a subsidiary of Deutsche Maschinen- und Schiffbau AG (DMS) in Rostock , fully owned by the Treuhandanstalt .1992 to 1998: MTW Shipyard
After the renaming in 1992 to ''MTW Schiffswerft GmbH'' , MTW now for ''Meerestechnik Wismar , the takeover by the'' Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG followed in August 1992 . From 1994 to 1998 modernizations took place through investments amounting to approx. 1 billion DM, although the ''Bremer Vulkan'' had to file for bankruptcy in 1996.1998 to 2008: Aker MTW
On May 1, 1998, the Norwegian group Aker RGI took over the shipyard, which henceforth bore the name ''Aker MTW'' . The former ''Kvaerner Warnow Werft Rostock GmbH'' and the ''Aker MTW Werft'' have been cooperating under the name ''Aker Ostsee'' since about the integration of the Kvaerner Group into the existing Aker Yards group of companies (2002) . Aker MTW Wismar, 20062008 to 2009: Wadan Yards MTW Wismar
In 2008, Aker Yards sold the majority to a Russian financial investor. The transaction came into effect retrospectively as of January 1, 2008 and from September 22 the yards traded as Wadan Yards . On June 5, 2009, the German divisions of ''Wadan Yards Group AS'' , including ''Wadan Yards MTW GmbH'' in Wismar, filed for insolvency at the District Court of Schwerin . The Schwerin lawyer Marc Odebrecht, a member of the law firm Brinkmann & Partner, was appointed as insolvency administrator.2009 to 2016: Nordic Yards Wismar
In mid-August 2009, the insolvency administrator was able to present an investor who also took over the Wismar shipyard. Nord Stream Moscow office head Vitaly Yusufov (Russian: Виталий Юсуфов, English transcription: Vitaly Yusufov), son of former Russian Energy Minister and Gazprom Supervisory Board member Igor Yusufov (Игорь Юсуфов, Igor Yusufov), acquired the assets of the German Wadan business units through the Nordic Yards, founded by him, for around 40.5 million euros. After the sale of all assets, the still insolvent German Wadan Yards parts are a legal shell through which the Wadan creditors are compensated. In October 2009, work was resumed in the company, but new orders were initially pending. It was not until 2010 that construction of a ''Nordic AT 19'' tanker designed for arctic conditions for the Russian company MMC Norilsk Nickel, worth around 100 million euros, could begin. Since 2010, the company has been involved in the offshore sector with the construction of platforms and special ships . In December 2012, the shipyard received a Russian government contract to build two ice-breaking rescue and recovery ships for the Arctic. The director Dieter Schumann accompanied the slide of the company and its employees into insolvency as well as the rescue maneuvers that were supposed to lead out of it in his film "Wadan's World". This premiered on October 22, 2010 as part of the 53rd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film .2016 to 2022: MV Werften Wismar
In March 2016, the Malaysian-Chinese shipping company Genting Hong Kong acquired the Nordic Yards for a purchase price of 230 million euros, the shipyard in Wismar was valued at 108.5 million euros. Together with Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven, the shipyards in Wismar, Warnemünde and Stralsund were to operate under the name "Lloyd Werft Group" and manufacture cruise ships. In July 2016, however, the founding of MV Werften was announced, which is based in Wismar. The cruise ships are now built exclusively at the MV shipyards. On March 20, 2020, the production of the current shipbuilding projects was suspended and the shipyard was temporarily closed. This was justified by the operational restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Norddeutscher Rundfunk reported that the shipyard group was having trouble paying bills for the second ''Global'' -class cruise ship and expedition yacht ''Crystal Endeavor being built at the Warnemünde and Stralsund sites;'' MV shipyards have contacted the KfW and applied for liquidity support from the Corona special program. On January 10, 2022, the company filed for bankruptcy.From 2022: Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems Wismar
On June 10, 2022, the shipyard was sold to Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems , which plans to build naval vessels in the shipyard from 2024. Meanwhile, the 80 percent completed ''Global Dream'' is to be completed; in November 2022, the Disney Group acquired the building, it is to be completed and converted under the direction of Meyer Werft and to go into operation in 2025. The insolvency administrator has leased the shipyard facilities back until the end of 2023.Ships built at Wismar shipyard 1951-2021
Ocean liners/Cruise ships
Folding kayaks
* Typ ''Kolibri''Cargo ships
* Typ Afrika * Typ MBC *River cruise ships
* '' V. Chkalov'' (1954) -Container ships
* 2010 - being converted (2015-2018) as Auxiliary replenishment vessel forSee also
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