58 The shipyards, suppliers and boat builders in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern provide industrial value creation and have the potential to further expand innovative capacity and create more knowledge-based jobs. By choosing Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as a location for the realisation of ambitious plans in military shipbuilding, the locations on the Baltic take account of the changed security situation in Europe and bear witness to the mutability of the maritime industry in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Wismar Shipyard: Shipbuilding has a unique tradition in the Hanseatic city of Wismar: hundreds of fishing, container, expedition and research vessels, the world‘s largest double-decker ferries, tankers and cruise ships have already been launched in the Hanseatic city or left the dock here. New landmarks: Since 2019, a 125-metre-high assembly crane from the Eberswalde-based company Kocks Ardelt has been enthroned on the quay walls of the port, capable of handling a lifting load of up to 75 tonnes. With the 164-metre-high TCC 78000 Liebherr, the Rostock seaport even has the world‘s most powerful harbour crane. It can lift three fully fuelled Airbus A 380s or 1,000 VW Golfs at once. Founded in 1946, the Wismar shipyard was extensively modernised in the 1990s to become the “Compact Shipyard 2000”. The 395-metre-long, 155-metre-wide and 72-metre-high dock hall is one of the largest shipyard halls in Europe. Ships can be assembled here in the subdividable 340-metre-long, 67-metre-wide and 13-metre-deep building dock, regardless of the weather. The integration of steel shipbuilding and equipment already in the panel production, a high degree of I Focus: Maritime industry
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