Anniversary at the German shipyard Tamsen Maritim: around 140 current and former employees came together to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the company’s foundation.
Among the guests were Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s Minister President Manuela Schwesig and Vice Admiral Frank Lenski, Deputy Inspector General of the Navy, Commander of the Fleet and Support Forces.
The shipyard was founded in 1995 by Abeking & Rasmussen and Neptun Industrie Rostock on the site of the former Neptun naval shipyard in Gehlsdorf. The company was initially called A&R Neptun Boat Service GmbH. At that time, around DM 23 million was invested in new halls with a total area of 4,300 m², workshops and an administration building. The shipyard also received a ship lift, which can be used to dock ships and yachts weighing up to 1,000 tons. After an initial change of ownership in 2002, further investments were made in the production facilities. In 2009, Hamburg entrepreneur Heiner Tamsen finally took over the shipyard, which has since been known as Tamsen Maritim.
Christian Schmoll, Managing Director of the company, called the laying of the foundation stone 30 years ago a “new chapter in the history of the traditional shipbuilding site”, which laid the foundation for the subsequent development of the Tamsen Maritim shipyard.
During the visit, Schmoll informed Minister President Schwesig about the company’s portfolio on the Warnow. In the repair sector, the shipyard carries out up to 50 dockings a year, primarily of naval vessels, government boats, sea rescue cruisers, passenger ships and special ships for the offshore industry. Tamsen Maritim also cooperates in the Rostock maritime cluster with the Hohe Düne naval base in the immediate repair of corvettes and with the new Warnowwerft naval arsenal, where naval vessels are regularly maintained and repaired.
Strategically, the Tamsen Maritim shipyard, which currently employs around 130 people, has also recently focused on ship newbuilding, the company announced on the occasion of its anniversary. In recent years, the shipyard has built and delivered two customs patrol boats developed in-house as well as workboats for the German Armed Forces. In addition, a number of sea rescue boats were built for the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (DGzRS). A newly built fishing inspection boat commissioned by the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is about to be delivered.
In the future, Tamsen Maritim aims to push ahead with the construction of new government, naval and special ships developed in-house and to continue to position itself “as a reliable partner to the navy and German authorities” at the shipbuilding location of Rostock. Above all, this requires well-qualified specialists. The company has therefore been continuously training apprentices for years and currently has 18 apprentices under contract.
