摘要: |
Almost exactly one year ago, we wrote here: »What a year for the shipbuilding industry!«. Well, what can we say: Today, this sentence can be repeated easily: »What a year«! Even more: What a change of times (to borrow a quote from the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz: »Zeitenwende«) The sentence has lost none of its actuality. On the contrary, anyone who thought 2021 would have been a turning point was proven wrong in 2022. Covid? Not yet done, but fortunately, with less dramatic effects. Green technologies? By now, an all too well-known and much-discussed topic that the entire shipping industry, and the German shipbuilding industry have to face up to - and is facing up to with no minor success, as innovative new projects with alternative forms of propulsion or ship designs prove. But politics does not stand still and pushes environmental regulation - EU taxonomy, to name just one example. Thus, shipowners will continue to rely on the know-how of the shipbuilding industry. |