Nordic Yards Wismar

Coordinates: 53°53′48″N 11°26′11″E / 53.896667°N 11.436389°E / 53.896667; 11.436389

Nordic Yards Wismar

Type	1951–1990 VEB 1990– GmbH
Industry	Shipbuilding
Founded	1946
Headquarters	Wismar, Germany
Products	Fishcutters River cruise ships Passenger ships Cargo ships
Owner	Vitaly Yusufov
Number of employees	700
Parent	Nordic Yards
Website	www.nordicyards.com

Nordic Yards Wismar (former VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar, Aker MTW Werft, Wadan Yards MTW) is a German shipbuilding company, headquartered in Wismar. Since June 1, 1990 it has been part of the Deutschen Maschinen- und Schiffbau AG (DMS AG)^[1] and since 2009 is part of the Nordic Yards Holding GmbH.^[2]

History

The ship repair yard was founded by Red Army on April 27, 1946.^[3] The Ivan Susanin was the first ship repaired at this yard. The shipyard developed quickly, from Soviet ship repair yard to VVB Schiffsreparaturwerft Wismar, in 1948, renamed to Hochseeschiffbau Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar VEB, in 1951. The first new ship V. Chkalov was built for the Soviet Union as war reparations after World War II on March 30, 1954.

Ships built by VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar (selection)

Folding kayaks

Typ Kolibri

Cargo ships

Typ Afrika
Typ MBC
Typ OBC

River cruise ships

V. Chkalov (1954)
Korolenko (1954)
Kavkaz (1958)

Ocean liners/Cruise ships

Marco Polo (originally, the Aleksandr Pushkin)
Mikhail Kalinin – the first passenger ship in sea-shipping history returned from Antarctica
Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze at shipyard on April 9, 1959
Korolenko as hotelship at Vyborg
The Russian training ship Gospodin Velikiy Novgorod on the Volkhov River
Feliks Dzerzhinskiy at the outfitting quay