Meyer Werft

Meyer Werft GmbH & Co. KG
Company typePrivate
IndustryShipbuilding
Founded1795
HeadquartersPapenburg, Germany
Key people
Bernd Eikens, CEO
Thomas Weigend
Bernhard Meyer (until 2024)
ProductsCruise ships
Tankers
Livestock carriers
Ferries
Research vessels
Revenue
  • 51 million (2018)
  • 17 million (2019)
  • 70 million (2020)
  • 2,1 Billion (2022)
Number of employees
7,000 (2024), 3100 (2030)
ParentMeyer Neptun S.à.r.l.
Websitemeyerwerft.com




Meyer Werft (pronounced [ˈmaɪɐ ˈvɛʁft] ; lit.'Meyer Shipyard') is a German shipbuilding company, headquartered in Papenburg at the river Ems. It was founded in 1795, as a builder of small wooden vessels. It has been owned and managed by the Meyer family for seven generations. Since 1997, it has been part of the Meyer Neptun Group, together with Neptun Werft in Rostock. In 2014, the company added the Turku shipyard in Finland to the group. Since then, it has also been a builder of luxury passenger ships. 700 ships of different types had been built at the yard. The Dock 2 Hall is the third largest shipbuilding hall and the fifth-largest usable volume in the world as of 2022. The shipyard is an anchor on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.