MEYER WERFT:
Driven by Vision
– Based on Tradition
Photos: Meyer Werft
Papenburg-based Meyer Werft
GmbH ranks among the world’s
leading shipyards specialised in
the construction of special-purpose vessels, especially cruise ships
and ferries. The recently delivered
cruise vessels “Celebrity Solstice”
and “AIDAluna” are another proof
of Meyer’s excellence and innovativeness. Remarkably enough this
top ranking yard has never seen a
change of ownership during more
than 200 years of history: It continues to be owned by the Meyer family, with Dipl.-Ing. Bernard Meyer
heading the yard as Managing
Partner in sixth generation.
Bernard Meyer, naval architect and
Managing Partner of Meyer Werft
in sixth generation.
L
ocated at Ems River in Papenburg in
as a wharf for the construction of wooden
ly Meyer Werft succeeded to survive and
the Federal State of Lower Saxony
ships, the shipyard continued to be driven
prosper in the long run – not the least due
(Niedersachsen), Meyer Werft doubtlessly
by visionary thinking throughout its more
to its willingness to adapt to new trends
constitutes one of Germany’s most prom-
than 200 years of history.
and technical innovations at an early stage.
inent examples of successful maritime en-
While Papenburg still used to have
Already in the early 1870s, far ahead of his
trepreneurship. Established back in 1795
about 20 shipyards around 1920, on-
competitors, Josef Lambert Meyer decid-
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