Thomas Kühmstedt, RIC MAZA supplier group: “We are in difficult waters.”
Source: CORNELIUS KETTLER
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“We are in difficult waters,” explains Thomas Kühmstedt, CEO at RIC MAZA. It is feared that the cooperative shipbuilding services in the industry will settle at “50 to 60 percent” of the pre-crisis level over the years. That could also cost a lot of jobs. Therefore he must shipbuilding to be converted in the northeast. In other words: away from large cruise ships and towards innovation shipbuilding. Kühmstedt names emission-free or autonomous shipping as examples. And: an EU-wide funding program is needed for the renewal of inland and sea fleets. “Politics must set the framework conditions.”
“Short-time work is not a solution in the long term”
Around 2,500 people are currently employed in the supplier group, which consists of around 45 companies. Like on the Shipyards beats the Corona-Krise by. “However, short-time work is not a solution in the long term,” says Eberhard Binder from the advisory board of the association. He is afraid of going Shipyards in the northeast, they would not come back. “That’s it for once – that would be far-reaching and fatal.” Cruise ships, for example the new, smaller universal ships of the MV shipyards (maximum 2000 passengers) could continue to be an important mainstay. But not alone.
A decline in the Shipyards fear them too IG Metall. It needs “finally clarity about orders from the Navy and other authorities to the shipbuilding to save in the north, ”says Daniel Friedrich, District manager of IG Metall coast. The union feared the loss of many jobs Shipyards and with suppliers.
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The Federal Ministry of Economics refers to efforts to preserve the shipbuilding industry. So there are additional funds from the federal economic stimulus package for the fleet renewal at the shipping administration, customs and Federal Police, so spokeswoman Annika Einhorn. There is also movement in marine shipbuilding, and additional civilian projects have been announced. Last but not least, the federal government has so far had 193 million euros in loans to rescue the MV shipyards approved. “The goal is this one crisis to survive and to maintain the substance of our economy. “
CDU-Mann Rehberg: green light for many Ships
More specifically, Eckhardt becomes CDU member of the Bundestag Rehberg. Keyword Navy: The Budget Committee of the Bundestag have given the green light for the construction of four multi-purpose combat ships MKS 180 – order volume: 5.5 billion euros. The tender is ongoing for two new naval transport ships – around 570 million euros. Around 645 million euros are to be spent on new watercraft, for example by the shipping authorities. “I hope that we can manage the order book of Shipyards and to stabilize suppliers even after Corona ”, so Rehberg. There are also programs for emission-free shipping, but not for autonomous shipping.
It would not work without government aid, explains the MV Minister for Economic Affairs Harry Glawe (CDU). “Thousands of jobs depend on individual projects, both at the Shipyards, as well as with the suppliers ”. A lot is being done to help the industry through the Corona period. Examples: guarantees, loans, more government contracts.
That is not enough for the suppliers. “The state should exert influence on German shipowners, Ships in Germany to order, to act in the national sense ”, so Binder.
From Frank Pubantz
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