Genting plans a pole of constructions of cruise ships of excellence under the new brand MV Werften



The three ship yards of Wismar, Warnemünde (Rostock) and Stralsund acquired at the beginning of this year from the group Genting Hong Kong ( on 3 March 2016) they will be reunited under the only corporate name MV Werften, will be placed under the guide of the center of Wismar and will concentrate own activity in the construction of great ships. Instead Lloyd Werft, the other German yard of the group of which Genting Hong Kong he has completed the acquisition at the beginning of this year ( on 18 September and 24 November 2015, 5 January 2016), it will centralize the activity on the repair, conversion and construction of mega yacht.

Announcing this project of organization of the navalmeccaniche activities in Germany, the president and managing director of the Genting group, Tan Sri KT Lim, has specified that they will be invested 100 million euros in order to make of the plants MV Werften between i yards for the construction of more modern and efficient cruise ships the world.

We remember that Genting Hong Kong work in the crocieristico field with the navigation companies Star Cruises, Dream Cruises and Crystal Cruises.

The first production of MV Werften, destined to the crocieristiche companies of the group, will be completed the next year and will be before four fluvial cruise ships of luxury for Crystal Cruises, continuation in 2018 from the delivery of before a series of yacht for polar shipments of 20.000 tons of tonnage of class "Crystal Endeavor" and in 2019 and 2020 from two cruise ships of 201.000 tons of tonnage for Cruises Star ( of 11 May 2016).

The Genting group has specified that in the next few years the productive ability to MV Werften will be pairs to two new-Panamax cruise ships of beyond 200.000 tons of tonnage and to a Panamax cruise ship per year. "We - he has emphasized Jarmo Laakso, the managing director of MV Werften that boasts one long experience in the field of the cruise ships having worked from 1998 to 2004 for the navalmeccanica company German Meyer Werft and from 2005 to 2015 for the American crocieristica company Royal Caribbean International - will make use of the force of the 1,400 dependent of MV Werften. We have still assumed and we are assuming - he has specified - other staff with experience in the field of the construction of cruise ships that, with the current force job, will make of MV Werften one of the most efficient and innovative constructors of cruise ships in Europe".