Meyer Werft

Meyer Werft GmbH & Co. KG
Company typePrivate
IndustryShipbuilding
Founded1795
HeadquartersPapenburg, Germany
Key people
Bernard Meyer, CEO

Thomas Weigend Dr. Jan Meyer Tim Meyer[1]

Bernd Eikens[2]
ProductsCruise ships
Tankers
Livestock carriers
Ferries
Research vessels
Revenue
  • Increase51 million (2018)
  • Increase17 million (2019)
  • Decrease70 million (2020)
[3]
Number of employees
7,000 (2024),[4] 3100 (2030)[5]
ParentMeyer Neptun S.à.r.l.
Websitemeyerwerft.com

Meyer Werft is a German shipyard headquartered in Papenburg at the river Ems, founded in 1795 with small wooden vessels. It has been owned and managed by the Meyer family for seven generations. Since 1997, it has been part of the Meyer Neptun Group, together with Neptun Werft in Rostock. In 2014, the company added the Turku shipyard in Finland to the group. Since then, Yard is a builder of luxury passenger ships. 700 ships of different types had been built at the yard. The Dock 2 Hall is the third largest shipbuilding hall and the fifth-largest usable volume in the world as of 2022. The shipyard is an anchor on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.[6]

  1. ^ https://www.meyerwerft.de/en/imprint.jsp
  2. ^ https://www.seatrade-cruise.com/shipbuilding-refurb-equipment/meyer-group-restructures-brings-new-ceo
  3. ^ "Substanz der deutschen Werften "bröckelt"" (in German). 2021-03-15. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
  4. ^ "MEYER Group". Archived from the original on 20 March 2024. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  5. ^ "Meyer Werft Workers Demiss". Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  6. ^ "ERIH Entry: Meyer Shipyard". European Route of Industrial Heritage. 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2015.

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