Hasenwinkel/Rostock (dpa/mv) - The Federal Ministry of Economics is pushing for a quick decision to release shipyard areas in Rostock-Warnemünde for the construction of converter platforms for wind turbines at sea. The talks with the Federal Ministry of Defense were going on, but were delayed due to the change in staff at the top of the department there, said the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Economics, Michael Kellner (Greens), on Monday in Hasenwinkel near Wismar.
"The construction of such platforms for wind farms in the North and Baltic Seas is a secure business field for many years. And if the plant is not built in Rostock, it will be built somewhere else in Europe. That would be a missed opportunity," emphasized Kellner on the sidelines of the annual reception of the business umbrella organization of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. His goal is therefore that the platforms are built in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
The Belgian company Smulders wants to set up a production site for platforms on part of the Warnemünde shipyard. The project has failed due to the lack of consent from the Federal Ministry of Defense, which had bought the shipyard out of the insolvency estate of the MV shipyard association in the previous year in order to build a naval arsenal there. Only part of the entire shipyard area is required for the arsenal, where naval ships are repaired and maintained.
