Neue Ruhrorter Schiffswerft GmbH

Neue Ruhrorter Schiffswerft GmbH (NRSW) is a shipyard whose operations date back to 1921, when it was founded in Duisburg-Ruhrort as a repair workshop by the shipping company Stachelhaus & Buchloh. Its main activities are the newbuilding of inland vessels and watercraft of all kinds, repair and maintenance of inland vessels, coastal motor ships and floating equipment, conversion work including single-hull to double-hull conversions, lengthenings and re-engining, dismantling of ship hulls, class work and class renewals, as well as services in the shipping sector. The company states it employs around 45 people and is certified to DIN ISO 9001:2015 by DNV.

The operation dates back to 1921, when it was founded at the Eisenbahnhafen in Ruhrort as a repair workshop by the shipping company Stachelhaus & Buchloh, and was taken over in 1938 by FRIED. KRUPP AG. After complete destruction in the Second World War, repair operations resumed as early as September 1945 with a floating dock consisting of two submarine hulls. In 1950 the shipyard facility in Meiderich at Hafenbecken B — today the only location — was taken over from the firm Lohbeck. In 1956 KRUPP took over the Schiffswerft Fritz Oltmann in Bremen-Rönnebeck as a third branch. In its heyday, from the early 1960s to the end of the 1980s, the RSW was among the most important inland shipyards in Western Europe and at times employed up to 370 people. It was among the first to deliver completely welded ship hulls and was significantly involved in the development and introduction of push-boat shipping on the Rhine. As a speciality, for shipping in overseas regions whose waterways have no navigable access to the sea, the RSW designed and built ships of all kinds in prefabricated, land-transportable sections; the modules (for nearly 300 newbuildings) were assembled at their destinations — on the Nile, Congo or Ganges — by local personnel under the guidance of experienced fitters.

• Inland vessels and watercraft

  Newbuilding of inland vessels and watercraft of all kinds.

• Prefabricated section-built ships

  Ships of all kinds built in prefabricated, land-transportable sections for overseas regions without navigable access to the sea.

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