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Volkswerft () is a
shipyard A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are shipbuilding, built and repaired. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Compared to shipyards, which are sometimes m ...
in the Hanseatic city of
Stralsund Stralsund (; Swedish language, Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic League, Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German language, German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklen ...
on the
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. It is part of the
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Hegemann-group. The Volkswerft was founded in 1948 as ''Ingenieurbau Ges.m.b.H.''. On April 25 the first trawler was delivered and on June 15, 1948 the '' VEB Volkswerft Stralsund'' was registered. From 1948 till 1953 the shipyard produced 196 ships, all of them to be used for reparation 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 the
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was delivered to
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. In 1973,
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saw the Volkswerft as number one in the production of trawlers worldwide. After 1990, the Volkswerft was privatized two times, first as ''Volkswerft Stralsund GmbH'' becoming part of the
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-Gruppe (
Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (, ), is the capital of the States of Germany, German state of the Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (), a two-city-state consisting of the c ...
) in 1993. In 1998 it became part of the Maersk group, Maersk having paid 25 million DM to the
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. 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 by
Genting Hong Kong Genting Hong Kong Limited ( zh, 雲頂香港有限公司) was a holding company that operated cruise and resort businesses. It was headquartered in (海洋中心), Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (). It was p ...
and folded into the newly formed
MV Werften MV Werften was a Hong Kong–Germany, German shipbuilding company that operated three facilities in eastern Germany to construct cruise ships for parent company Genting Hong Kong. In January 2022, MV Werften filed for bankruptcy, and an admi ...
group with two other German shipbuilders. In 2022, the company failed for bankruptcy. Same year, the site was bought by the City of Stralsund. Since then, different companies are based at the former shipyard facilities. For example, the scrapping company Leviathan GmbH from Bremen is planning to scrap ships here.


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