Keel laying of the STS workboats at the SET shipyard in Tangermünde

Shipyard Managing Director Olaf Deter welcomed the representatives of the client and those of the later operator, who had each appeared with a large group of senior employees to attend the keel-laying ceremony, and thanked them for the commission. "On July 28 of last year, we signed a contract with Tamsen Maritim GmbH from Rostock for the construction and ready-to-use delivery of two STS work boats for the WTD-71." STS is the abbreviation for "Security, Transport and Towing Boats" for the Navy. For SET, this is a contract "in which, for the first time, we do not deliver to the end customer, but instead supply Tamsen Maritim GmbH as a shipyard, which itself bears ultimate responsibility for the subsequent operator of the ships." "This is new for us, but it is still a sensible and future-oriented path, especially in Germany's currently very crisis-ridden shipyard landscape. Because it enables the shipyards to face international competition together as partners and less as competitors. A competition that does not always seem balanced due to the politically created framework.”

In this context, Deter once again warmly thanked our client and thus also partner, Tamsen Maritim GmbH, "on behalf of all employees of the shipbuilding and development company Tangermünde, for the assignment to build the two workboats and the trust placed in us. A project that secures a bit of the future and thus the preservation of jobs. Seen in this way, I would like to assure you here and now that we will do everything necessary to be able to deliver a vehicle that can be used optimally in the end. Because nothing is more important to us as a shipyard than a good product and therefore a satisfied customer. So the wish is also the goal.”

Technical data of both ships:

Overall length: 20.10 m
Overall width: 5.70 m
Side height: 2.15 m
Draft: 1.40 m
Speed: 10 knots
​​​​​​​Drive power: 1 x 368 kW