A pair of shipyards in northern Germany owned by investor Lars Windhorst have been bought out of bankruptcy by two established shipbuilding firms, according to the bankruptcy administrators.<\/p>\n
The Nobiskurg shipyard in the northern German town of Rendsberg and the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) in the city of Flensburg on the Danish border are both part of Windhorst’s Tennor Group, which went into insolvency proceedings in December.<\/p>\n
Nobiskrug and FSG had already been experiencing problems for some time.<\/p>\n
The Bremen-based luxury yacht builder L\u00fcrssen will take over the Nobiskrug shipyard, according to provisional insolvency administrators Hendrik Gittermann and Christoph Morgen. L\u00fcrssen already owns a shipyard in the nearby town of Schacht-Audorf, which sits on the same canal.<\/p>\n
The FSG shipyard will be bought by Bremerhaven-based Heinrich R\u00f6ner Group, which specializes in shipbuilding and heavy steel construction, the administrators reported.<\/p>\n
The Australian shipping company SeaRoad is expected to act as a cooperation partner for FSG until the ferry the company ordered from FSG is completed by the shipyard.<\/p>\n
The Heirich R\u00f6nner Group had already purchased the steel construction division of the Rendsburg Nobiskrug shipyard in November 2021.<\/p>\n
According to Morgen, the employees are to resume work there shortly.<\/p>\n
Nobiskrug has built well over 750 ships since it was founded in 1905. The shipyard specializes in the construction of luxury yachts over 60 metres in length.<\/p>\n
One of the best-known new builds of recent years is the massive sailing yacht A, which is almost 143 metres long.<\/p>\n
In FSG’s more than 150-year history, the shipyard has built a wide range of different types of ships, from passenger steamers and three-masted schooners to fleet service boats and research vessels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>