Blohm + Voss
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| Private, GmbH | |
| Industry | Shipbuilding |
| Founded | 1877 |
| Founder | Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss |
| Headquarters | Hamburg, Germany |
| Owner | ThyssenKrupp |
| Parent | ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems |
| Website | blohmvoss.com |
Blohm + Voss. also written historically as Blohm & Voss and Blohm und Voss. is a German shipbuilding and engineering company. It is currently a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.
The company also oversees maintenance and repair of large cruise ships such as RMS Queen Mary 2 and the MS Queen Victoria.
In the 1930s the company established the Hamburger Flugzeugbau subsidiary which built aircraft before and during World War II and, shortly after the war's outbreak, took on its parent company's name.
ThyssenKrupp announced in December 2011 that it had agreed the sale of Blohm + Voss' civil shipbuilding division to British investment company STAR Capital Partners, pending regulatory approval. On September 28, 2016, it was announced that Lürssen would acquire Blohm + Voss in a long-term partnership.
Blohm & Voss was founded on 5 April 1877, by Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss as a general partnership. It established a shipyard on the island of Kuhwerder, near the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, covering 15,000 m² with 250 m of water frontage and three building berths, two suitable for ships of up to 100 metres length. The company name was shown with the ampersand until 1955.
The company's logo is now a simple dark blue rectangle with rounded corners bearing the white letters "Blohm+Voss".
The company has built ships and other large machinery continuously for 125 years, despite being almost completely demolished by the end of World War II. It now builds warships both for the German Navy and for export (see MEKO), as well as oil drilling equipment and ships for numerous commercial customers. It administers the Elbe 17 dry dock at Hamburg.
The company is, along with Howaldtswerke at Kiel and Nordseewerke at Emden, a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.
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