After a long time, another ship is laid on the keel at the Stralsund shipyard. Not the only good news for the site.
Stralsund (dpa / mv) – After being taken over by the city and restarted as an industrial park, the Stralsund shipyard can book the first keel laying and a new tenant. A 37 meter long electric car ferry from the steel construction company Ostseestaal and its subsidiary Ampereship was laid on keel on Wednesday. According to the city, the company Strela Shiprepair GmbH signed a contract as the sixth tenant. The city announced that it wanted to repair ships in the Strelasund from January 2023 and initially started with 35 shipbuilders.
According to the information, Strela Shiprepair is an interest group of shipowners and ship managers from the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts. “Stralsund is the ideal location for us, because there are only half a dozen shipyards with a ship lift in the whole of Europe,” praised Niels Severin from the ReedEr association.
The city had taken over the site after the bankruptcy of MV shipyards to develop a maritime business park. Mayor Alexander Badrow (CDU) once again explained the city’s strategy: “Our goal is to be broadly positioned in the areas of shipbuilding and repairs as well as alternative forms of propulsion and energy.”
On the occasion of the laying of the keel, Philipp Peuß, Marketing Manager of Ostseestaal and Ampereship, emphasized: “It makes me particularly proud that we are the first, after a long time, to lay a ship in this symbolic hall.” In the future, the ferry will connect the Travemünde district of Lübeck with the Priwall peninsula.
The 13.5 meter wide ship will offer space for up to 300 people as well as 15 bicycles and 18 cars or 12 cars plus two trucks. According to the information, it is to be powered by two electric units. In addition, a diesel generator is used to increase the range. Equipped with solar modules, it will initially be fully electric and therefore emission-free for more than half the time every day. Afterwards, the ship can easily be converted to a completely emission-free drive, for example with a battery or hydrogen.
Ostseestaal has already built several electric ferries, such as passenger ships for the Rostock city port or Lake Constance. According to old shipbuilding tradition, the steel substructure was lowered onto a coin on Wednesday morning – in this case a two-euro coin with the Lübeck Holstentor. This is to be salvaged later and accompany the ship as a lucky charm.
The other tenants on site include the Norwegian shipbuilder Fosen Yard, the wind turbine manufacturer German Sustainables and the company Steamergy Stralsund, which intends to develop and manufacture alternative propulsion systems for ships on the Strelasund.
