Howaldtswerke-German Werft GmbH (HDW), Kiel, a company of ThyssenKrupp Technologies, and Marine Force International LLP (MFI), London, received on 2 July 2009 a contract for the delivery of six material packages for the construction of submarines of class 214 signed with Turkey.
The contract was signed in Ankara in the presence of the Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül, the CEO of ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG, Dr. Olaf Berlien, the member of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG, Dr. Hans Christoph Atzpodien, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Defense, Thomas Kossendey, and the inspector of the German Navy, Vice Admiral Wolfgang E. Nolting, instead.
The six submarines are equipped with an air independent propulsion system based on the HDW-Brennzoffzellen technology, are manufactured at the Turkish Naval Shipyards Shipyard Gölcük (GNSY) in Izmit. Here were previously constructed past eleven of the Class 209 submarines for the Turkish Navy.
With Turkey, another country is equipping its navy with the most modern air-independent U-Boottyp out. In the future will thus be on the high seas 36 U-boats with a HDW fuel cell propulsion system on the road.
Dr. Olaf Berlien stresses the importance of this new major: "The position of HDW, the world leader in the field of non-nuclear submarines will be further strengthened. Through this order, both the jobs at HDW in the long term but also several hundred jobs at suppliers in Germany. "
turkey already signed a deal