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Howaldtswerke-Deutsch Werft GmbH. Kiel-based Howaldtswerke-Deutsch Werft
GmbH today is
the biggest German shipyard and an international shipyard group.Together with its
subsidiaries - Kockums AB, Hellenic Shipyards A.S., HDW-Nobiskrug GmbH and
HDW-Hagenuk-Schiffstechnik GmbH, HDW represents about 6,500 employees.
The company headquarters is in Kiel with main activities in Kiel, Rendsburg, Malmö,
Skaramanga and Karlskrona.
The strength of HDW is based on its versatility and ability in all fields of shipbuilding. The HDW position today is based on the naval shipbuilding field. HDW is known specially for its non-nuclear submarines which are operated by 16 navies of the world. In the merchant shipbuilding field HDW builds high-quality container vessels and passenger-carrying vessels - cruise liners, ferries and large private yachts. HDW: Our History In 1838, Johann Schweffel and August Ferdinand Howaldt founded their mechanical engineering plant and ironworks in Kiel under the name "Schweffel & Howaldt". In 1851, during the German-Danish war, Schweffel & Howaldt built the world's first operational submarine, the "Brandtaucher", constructed on the same basic principles that apply to submarines today. At the beginning of the 20th century the "Howaldtswerke" ranked among the most important German shipyards. With various owners, changing legal status, construction sites in Hamburg and Kiel, the yard survived both World Wars. The yard received its present name "Howaldtswerke-Deutsch Werft GmbH" in 1968 with the amalgamation of the "Kieler Howaldtswerke AG" with "Howaldtswerke Hamburg AG" and "Deutsche Werft AG". HDW: Our ships In its past HDW has built merchant and naval ships of all types. There were always pioneers among them: Innovative ships as the polar research vessel "Gauss" (1901), the world's first supertanker "Jupiter" (1914), the first floating aircraft base "Ostmark" (1936), the nuclear powered freighter "Otto Hahn" (1968), the novel open top container ship "Norasia Fribourg" (1993), the luxury cruise vessel "Deutschland" (1998) or the biggest reefer ships of the world "Dole Chile" and "Dole Colombia". In submarine building the class 209 is the most successful post-war submarine and the AIP-fuel cell powered class 212 is a revolution in submarine construction. Shipbuilding HDW is a high-technology shipyard for sophisticated ships of all types and sizes. The yard is one of the most modern shipbuilding yards in Europe.HDW belongs to the world's technological leaders in merchant and in naval shipbuilding in, among other, developing, designing and constructing surface vessels and submarines. The supplies and services include: Ferries for passengers and cargo transport, cruise vessels, gas carriers, naval surface vessels, components and furthermore the modernisation, conversion and repairs of naval ships. Products HDW is for the time being concentrating on passenger carrying vessels like RoPax ferries and cruise vessels, megayachts and, in addition to this, modern container vessels. |
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