Written by
Nick Blenkey
Standing: L to R: Bernard Meyer (Managing Director Meyer Werft), Bas Ort (Supervisory Board Member C-Job), Paul Meyer (Chief Data Officer Meyer Werft)
Seated: L to R: Malte Poelmann (Chief Know-how Officer Meyer Werft, Job Volwater (Co-Founder & CEO C-Job), Basjan Faber (Co-Founder & Chief Monetary Officer C-Job), Bastian Witt (Head of Equipment Design Meyer Werft)
Germany’s Meyer Group has entered into strategic partnership with C-Job Naval Architects that may see it take a 50% stake within the Netherlands-headquartered ship design and engineering firm.
With three shipyards, two in Germany and one in Finland, Meyer is a number one participant in cruise ship building, and the transfer solidifies its concentrate on sustainable options and permits it to diversify its portfolio. It has just lately expanded its operations by creating Meyer Re, which provides transport firms options to maximise their vessel’s sustainability, ideally all through their lifecycle from improvement and construct to supporting them by means of their working lives and at last end-of-life recycling.
C-Job Naval Architects is taken into account a thought chief on sustainability within the maritime trade, having been on the forefront of different fuels analysis. It was the primary firm to show ammonia may be utilized safely as a marine gas, continued with different renewable fuels equivalent to methanol and final yr unveiled its idea for a brand-new class of liquid hydrogen tanker powered by hydrogen gas cells.
Moreover, the corporate has a robust monitor document in dredging, offshore wind, mega yachts, and ferries (the director of its Athens workplace, Nikos Papapanagiotou, will likely be among the many audio system at our FERRIES 2023 occasion, subsequent month).
The strategic alliance will enable Meyer Group to make the most of C-Job’s data of and expertise in making use of renewable fuels to its portfolio specializing in cruise vessels particularly – which in flip diversifies C-Job’s personal portfolio.
Job Volwater, CEO and co-founder of C-Job Naval Architects, says: “We began C-Job in 2007 and we have now been making waves ever since. We haven’t been afraid to do issues a bit in a different way which has led to our successes. In Meyer Group, we have now discovered a accomplice who aligns with our values and tradition, making our partnership a pure match. I’m proud Meyer and C-Job have mixed forces and I’m sure this union will fortify our place in each the Netherlands and internationally much more.”
Basjan Faber, CFO and co-founder of C-Job Naval Architects, provides: “In 2020 we vocalized our imaginative and prescient for a sustainable maritime trade inside one technology. In Meyer, we have now discovered a like-minded group that shares this imaginative and prescient and desires to realize this collectively. I’ve little doubt we are going to do nice issues collectively that complement and proceed to construct on what C-Job has achieved to date.”
Malte Poelmann, CTO at Meyer Group, says: “C-Job and Meyer share the frequent imaginative and prescient to make transport sustainable within the close to future! We at all times need to supply the most effective and tailored engineering options, each for newbuilds and for the transformation of the prevailing fleet, along with Meyer Re. As strategic companions we can push the boundaries for sustainable options within the maritime trade.”
