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The Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven shipyard was bought by German entrepreneurs Rönner and Zech
The contract was signed on Friday
March 7, 2022
Genting Hong's Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven Shipyard Kong, a Chinese group that declared bankruptcy and was placed in receivership (
of 19 January 2022), was bought by entrepreneurs German Thorsten Rönner and Kurt Zech, with purchase contract of the navalmeccanico plant that employs 230 employees signed in the late evening of Friday.
Highlighting that after a year and a half of uncertainty for the employees of the Bremerhaven plant and the opening of a insolvency proceedings have been found a good solution for the continuation of the activity of Lloyd Werft, the Senator for the Economy, Labour and Europe of the Land of Bremen, Kristina Vogt, stressed that "it was a difficult time for employees, even when it has become apparent that there were interested parties in Lloyd Werft. The employees of the construction site and their families need positive future prospects and safe, which is why we expect safe jobs and how history. On the other hand - specified the senator - for me it is it is also essential that Bremerhaven continues the activity of shipbuilding at Lloyd Werft and, also as an industrial headquarters of the Federal State of Bremen, the preservation of activities of the shipyards in this historic location is a signal important. The future of many suppliers and their employees it also depends on the continuation of the existence of the construction site.'
Thorsten Rönner is Managing Director of the Group family Hinrich Rönner active in the construction sector and ship repair mainly through the company navalmeccanica Bredo Dry Docks, as well as in the sectors of supplies for the naval sector, steel construction, services and trade. Kurt Zech is managing partner of Zech construction group, also active in the real estate and hotel.
Recall that at the beginning of this year MV Werften, the other German shipbuilding company of the Genting HK group in Hong Kong Kong, filed for bankruptcy after the Länder of Mecklenburg-Pomerania had denied the granting of funds required by the company for liquidity needs (
of 11 January 2022).
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