Centre part of GHK’s €100M investment to improve Lloyd Werft Group's cruise ship design facilities
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Rebecca Gibson |
Genting Hong Kong (GHK) unveiled the premises of its new Lloyd Werft Group Design Centre in Bremerhaven, Germany, which will officially become operational on 30 May 2016.
Housed in restored heritage building first constructed in 1910, the Lloyd Werft Group Design Centre will be able to accommodate up to 250 designers in 6,000sqm of office space. Another 1,500sqm will be used to display of mock-ups for cruise ship cabins, suites and public areas, as well as furniture and other movable items for cruise ships. It is expected that the centre will provide more than one hundred new jobs.
The centre is part of GHK’s long-term €100 million investment to improve cruise ship design facilities for the Lloyd Werft Group, which comprises Lloyd Werft’s Bremerhaven yard and three recently acquired Nordic Yards facilities in Wismar, Warnemunde and Stralsund, Germany. The new Design Centre will form the nucleus for basic and detailed design, while additional production design will be carried out in Wismar and Warnemunde.
“Being in charge of information technology for the Genting Group, I am very happy to support a world-class design centre featuring the latest design software that can be coordinated and interfaced with other ship equipment suppliers to efficiently produce the full basic and detailed design of cruise ships and mega yachts,” said Hui Lim, GHK’s CIO and executive director. “On behalf of Genting, I would like to thank the State of Bremen and the City of Bremerhaven for their support of Lloyd Werft for over 160 years and we look forward to closer cooperation and support in our efforts to create a second cruise shipyard group in Germany – the Lloyd Werft Group – which will create thousands of new jobs for the cruise shipbuilding industry in Germany and Europe.”
Lloyd Werft Group is set to become the second largest shipyard group in Germany, providing GHK with the expertise and capacity to construct newbuilds for its three cruise brands – Crystal Cruises, Star Cruises and Dream Cruises – over the next decade.