It has been known for months that there is a crisis at MV Werften. But how delicate the situation really is, only became clear on Friday, when trading in shares of the Asian Genting Group, which had acquired the shipyards in 2016 for the construction of cruise ships for its own shipping companies, was suspended on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Almost immediately, the due payment of wages and salaries for the around 2000 employees in Wismar, Rostock and Stralsund was postponed to next week. “We have 30 million euros in liquidity. But there are legal frameworks under which we were not able to pay the wages and salaries today ”, said managing director Carsten Haake following a staff meeting. The future of Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven, which also belongs to Genting, is also uncertain.
