Just before the turn of the year, Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) started production of a RoRo ferry. It is the first order after the restructuring and restart of the shipyard in September 2020. The first hull segment of newbuilding No. 782, weighing more than 501, was lowered by crane onto a bracing that held a 1 € coin as a good luck charm for the RoRo ferry to be built for IVP Ship Invest, a company owned by Lars Windhorst, founder of Tennor Holding. The 210-meter newbuilding is scheduled for completion in April 2022. In addition, the customer is placing an option for a second vessel. The order has a total volume of 140 mill. €. In the future, naval shipbuilding at the Flensburg Fjord is to be given a stronger focus. »The shipyard will diversify in the future, and we will increasingly act as a reliable partner to the German Navy as well as in international naval shipbuilding,« announced CEO Philipp Maracke. To this end, he says, it will be possible to build on earlier projects, as FSG continues to have a good reputation as a naval shipyard, even though merchant ships have been built in Flensburg in recent years. Furthermore, FSG wants to address the issue of zero emission vessels and thus achieve ecological and economic market leadership in special shipbuilding, explains the FSG Chief Executive.
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