State at Kockums is critical.
If no new submarine orders will by March may be forced to lay off.
There, sources for new technologies.
Kockums German owners ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, TKMS, went in the spring
from the agreement with the Swedish government for a price of next-generation Swedish submarine A26. Since then wants to leave no fixed price for the construction of two new submarines. Instead, they offer you to build the A26 for current account.
Billion contract could thus become considerably more expensive for Swedish taxpayers, and the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration, FMV, has been unable to accept the new German conditions and has not made any request on the submarine by Kockums.
– Kockums would have needed to build the order of A26-submarine long ago. It must be later than the last day of March, otherwise, many no jobs, says a source.
person concerned fears notice within a few weeks. Another source states also that TKMS intend to raise notice the question “if nothing happened on the orders front in March.”
Kockums currently has around 1,000 employees. 245 persons of them are working in Malmö. Most of these are engineers who designed the A26-ball, which will bring the Swedish Navy new advanced underwater abilities. Reportedly located engineers worst if notice is added. But the company also has about 700 employees at the shipyard in Karlskrona and 70 on Muskö.
Kockums also waiting since 2012 to get halvtidsmodifiera submarines Gotland and Halland – which are considered the best in the Swedish submarine force. After work, they belong to the most modern in the world. You’re done with the design drawings and awaiting construction contract from FMV.
New Technology can today reveal that the German company also here refuses to give Sweden any fixed price and want to modernize the current account. FMV is now evaluating the tender.
– order is not stopped, but the FMV and the Swedish Armed Forces discusses a new maritime strategy, says Toni Eriksson, communication
Director at FMV.
TKMS has for years treated its Swedish subsidiary unfairly. The design contract for the A26 stands for example, that the vessel will be marketed and offered other countries on equal terms with TKMS offers HDW. The latter is Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, TKMS second submarine shipyard in Kiel.
Yet TKMS refused to leave Kockums Submarine quotes on the A26 to other countries, or demanded impossible conditions of recipient countries.
reason is that ThyssenKrupp would prefer to sell submarines with HDW. The yards are – even though they belong to the same group – each other’s worst rivals. Not least because they are among the few shipyards in the world that manufactures submarines with air-independent propulsion system. This allows the ship to stay long term in the face.
Before Christmas kindled hope again Kockums. You got an order from Australia to do a preliminary study of a new Australian submarine, based on current Australian Collins submarines. TKMS this time had said yes to Kockums. But the order can only occupy a small group of engineers and HDW’s stealth submarine 216 competes with Kockums A26.
TKMS have positioned themselves by buying into the Australian marine industry.
John Ahlmarks, Director of Communications at Kockums, would not comment on the notice is near. But A26-order is strategically important, he admits.
– We await the construction slips on the A26. Without that we will ultimately not be able to maintain the skills to develop submarines. In the short term, we are preparing to put in the time to build quickly on the day the contract comes, he says.
Among other test builds airframe parts for A26 grade.
Construction of the A26 is now two years behind schedule. Last spring baths FMV’s Director General Lena Erixon government for help. Subsequently, the submarine altercation continued at a high political level – and contributed to a dispute between Sweden and Germany.
Swedish side has tried to persuade TKMS selling Kockums. Defence group Saab said to be a stakeholder. But so far the attempts have not been successful.
Thyssen Krupp industry manager Hans Christoph Atzpodien said before Christmas that he is not willing to sell the whole Kockums. But he is willing to sell minority stakes, and maybe even give Sweden a strong vote share. Today he refers once again to the statement.
It seems the parties stand in the middle of the lake.
Footnote: Kockums was baptized last summer about to TKMS AB, but the old name lives on in the vernacular.
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