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Less than a week before the 13th National Maritime Conference in Bremen, IG Metall Küste has called for an employment and location offensive for German shipyards. Everything is there for a good...

Berlin is expected to decide within weeks whether to take a stake in Thyssenkrupps warship division, which the conglomerate is seeking to divest, a leading labour official said on Friday, adding this...

KIEL/WISMAR (dpa-AFX) - The IG Metall trade union is demanding clarity from the German government on its plans for naval shipbuilding. After the planned procurement in the 100-billion-euro program was cut, the industry does not know which orders it c...

By Christoph Steitz and Tom Kckenhoff FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) -Influential labour representatives are open to private equity players taking a ...

Berlin: Stuck in a dockyard on Germany s Baltic coast for months, a part completed mega liner has been saved from the scrapheap by the American entert...

Stuck in a dockyard on Germany's Baltic coast for months, a part-completed mega-liner has been saved from the scrapheap by the American entertainment giant Disney.

German naval company thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (tkMS) has acquired the shipyard location of MV Werften in Wismar, Germany.

The company has seen demand for huge cruise ships or luxury mega-yachts dwindle as travel is still severely restricted during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in Asia.

FRANKFURT, Jan 10 — German-based cruise ship builder MV Werften said it will file for bankruptcy today, as the coronavirus pandemic scuttled the subsidiary of Asian tourism and casino giant Genting. “The bankruptcy petition should be submitted today,” a spokesman for MV Werften told AFP...

Without a common European struggle of Airbus workers, not a single job can be defended.