The Strela Shiprepair shipyard is expanding: the company has reached an agreement with the city of Stralsund to use the large shipbuilding hall in the Volkswerft Maritime Industrial and Commercial Park.
Strela is thus filling a gap left by the recently announced withdrawal of Fosen Yards from the site. “This opens up the opportunity for us to significantly increase our existing repair and conversion capacities,” said Strela Managing Director Jan Tebbe-Simmendinger on the occasion of the agreement. “We can also tackle construction and conversion projects with partners.”
Strela significantly expands capacities
The large hall considerably expands Strela Shiprepair ‘s capacities. The working area is 90,000 m2, meaning that ships up to 260 metres long and 30 metres wide can be processed there. The indoor cranes have a lifting capacity of up to 800 tons, and a Syncrolift is also installed to lift the ships. There is also a 720-metre-long shipyard pier with two additional 50-ton cranes.
Strela—founded in 2022 and in business since 2023—previously used its own 720-metre-long shipyard quay with a crane capacity of 100 tons. The repair yard currently employs 48 people.
Stralsund terminates lease agreement with Fosen
With this expansion, the company is responding to the withdrawal of Fosen Yards from the Volkswerft site. The shipyard had previously leased the large shipbuilding hall, among other things, but the city of Stralsund terminated the contract prematurely. Despite intensive efforts, Fosen had “not succeeded in attracting the expected number of shipbuilding and steel construction projects to Stralsund or in creating the desired number of jobs”, the Hanseatic city announced on Wednesday. Fosen last employed 45 people in Stralsund.
One day after the contract was terminated, Fosen filed for insolvency, according to the broadcaster. Outstanding orders could no longer be delivered.
The Norwegian-German shipbuilding company leased large areas of the compact shipyard and the shipbuilding hall since 2022 and founded Fosen Yards Stralsund GmbH for this purpose. The second major tenant of the former shipyard MV Werften is the shipbuilding company Ostseestaal.
