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the German group Lürssen buys the ship yard Blohm+Voss di Amburgo
It will be active in the new construction of military ships and, if the market demands it, of yacht
September 29, 2016
The navalmeccanica society German Blohm+Voss is acquired by the Lürssen, group of property of the Lürssen family that is specialized in the repair and refitting of yacht and commercial and military ships and that last year it has celebrated the 140 years of activity. The shipbuilding company of Amburgo is yielded by the manager of deep British STAR Capital Partners whom the Blohm+Voss of 2011 from the ThyssenKrupp had at the end acquired ( on 12 December 2011).
The ship yard of Amburgo di Blohm+Voss covers an area of beyond 420 thousand square metres and has a dock of 2.100 linear meters. "With the acquisition of Blohm+Voss - Peter Lürssen has explained, managing partner of the Lürssen Maritime Beteiligungen - we take possession of a yard that has a favorable positioning strategically and structures poured them. We want to use these structures in order to integrate our current activities of refit and repair and to offer also to our customers an always better service. Moreover we would want to employ the competence and the experience of the yard and its employee for the new construction of complex military ships and in order to continue their production near the site of Amburgo. The construction of yacht in the yard of Amburgo - it has specified Lürssen - will depend on the total situation of the market and is difficult to make forecasts in this moment".
With this acquisition, that it will have to be approved of from German Fair Trade Commission, the Lürssen group will have altogether of six ship yards in northern Germany and of beyond 2.800 dependent.
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