THE NAVIGATOR News for our partners November 2017 AIDAnova NEW LNG CRUISE SHIP STARTS TO TAKE SHAPE. PARTNER OF THE YEAR – DISNEY CRUISE LINE INVESTMENT VOLUME HAS 04/17 OUR BEST SUPPLIERS ORDERS ANOTHER SHIP MORE THAN DOUBLED MEYER WERFT Awards ceremony held in Turku New vessel will expand the Disney MEYER TURKU's long-term strategy NEPTUN WERFT for the first time fleet to seven ships in total. to increase production MEYER TURKU TABLE OF CONTENTS THE GROUP 03 08 14 CHALLENGE ACCEPTED SALES AND DESIGN DEPARTMENT MEY CHANGE – REINVENTING The future doesn’t start someday, but right now UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT FOR A SECURE FUTURE and demand a proactive change management Malte Poelmann took over as Head of Sales and Transition process is bringing about a change strategy. Design at MEYER Turku on 1 August 2017. for MEYER family business and for each indi- vidual employee and also our partners. 09 MEYER TURKU INVESTS 185 MILLION EUROS Investment volume has more than doubled and is part of the company’s long-term strategy to increase production at the Turku site. 10 16 WE ARE INVESTING CENTRAL SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP IN THE FUTURE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS In order to ensure we meet the requirements of Supplier relationship management functions our full order book, we are ramping up production were incorporated into the Corporate Purchas- 04 at all three of our shipyards. ing Department at MEYER NEPTUN. KEEL LAID FOR AIDAnova The first LNG cruise ship of Carnival Corporation with consistently natural gas use starts to take shape. 06 ‘PARTNER DES JAHRES’ BECOMES 17 ‘PARTNER OF THE YEAR’ ‘GIVE A DONATION INSTEAD OF A GIFT‘ Awards ceremony for the best suppliers held in Turku for the first time and MEYER TURKU did For the third year in a row we ask our partner an excellent job. companies to support a charitable organisation instead of giving presents. 08 12 18 MEYER IMPLEMENTS ERP ORDER BOOKS NEWS IN BRIEF As a strategic decision the MEYER group is investing Three cruise ships per year to come from New guest Wi-Fi at MEYER WERFT, Conversion in a common ERP system for the shipyards and all Papenburg in future and Disney Cruise Line to LED lighting, Dominik Sandmann nominated, subsidiaries within the next years. and Saga Cruises order again. Drop in number of shipyards and more. 02 THE NAVIGATOR THE GROUP CHALLENGE ACCEPTED The future doesn’t start someday, but right now. New technologies such as LNG drive systems; more orders from DISNEY, Viking and SAGA; further investment at our sites in Turku, Warnemünde and Papenburg; and the necessary digital transformation all demand a proactive change management strategy. Klaus Lübbers, Chief procurement officer MEYER Group e must not stand still – we need to invest right now in Previously, the most important strategic goal for the Purchasing department was our future and in the collaboration with our suppliers. to save costs. These days, Purchasing has a more important role to play. With a WWe will develop our supplier management accordingly. majority interest of at least 75% per ship, we are working together with our suppliers Our current order book with a purchasing volume of over EUR 13 billion to ensure that the ship is delivered not only at the right cost but also on the provides the basis for the necessary change process. requested date and to the specified quality standards. An efficient and well-managed supply chain is crucial to guarantee that our ships consisting of more than The strategic, overarching alignment of all the MEYER companies under the 15,000,000 individual parts are delivered on schedule in order to make our heading ‘MEYChange’ entails many changes. All three shipyards are learning customers happy. from one another, we are harmonising our processes and the employees at the locations are working closer together. By the end of the year, the first I am glad that it will not be boring – together we will build five ships per year in joint orders (MW and MT) will have been placed for the Icon and Disney new the future. Let’s get started on driving the future forward! builds. This year, the three shipyards also awarded the ‘Partner des Jahres’ (Partner of the Year) jointly for the first time in Turku. Next year, the ceremony will be held in Warnemünde. THE NAVIGATOR 03 KEEL LAID FOR AIDAnova 04 THE NAVIGATOR THE GROUP NEW LNG CRUISE SHIP STARTS TO TAKE SHAPE. THIS IS THE FIRST VESSEL ON WHICH CARNIVAL CORPORATION WILL CONSISTENTLY USE NATURAL GAS AS AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY, LOW-EMISSION FUEL. apenburg, 6 September 2017 – The first block of the new cruise ship AIDAnova (S.696) for the shipping company PAIDA Cruises has been laid down. Trainees Louisa Tröbner (AIDA Cruises) and Martin de Boer (MEYER WERFT) placed the traditional lucky coin under the first of a total of 90 blocks. AIDAnova is the first of two new ships for the AIDA brand. Carni- val Corporation has ordered another five ships in Papenburg and Turku. AIDAnova will set new standards at sea with its advanced LNG technology. With over 183,900 GT and capacity for more than 2,500 cabins, the ships will be added to the AIDA fleet at the end of 2018 and in 2021. The modern, onboard power plant that sup- plies environmentally friendly energy for all the shipping and hotel operations was built at NEPTUN WERFT in Warnemünde. It con- sists of four exceptionally low-emission dual fuel engines devel- oped by Caterpillar (Kiel/Rostock) which can be operated with LNG both at sea and in port. “We thank Carnival Corporation and AIDA Cruises very much for their trust and their pioneering decision to implement LNG tech- nology on board. The corresponding infrastructure is now being built at numerous ports. Carnival has taken a decision for the good of the environment that is very important for the cruise industry,” said Bernard Meyer, managing director of MEYER WERFT. “We are working intensively with experts from AIDA, Carnival, our partners including Caterpillar and the classification society RINA to ensure this is a successful step towards a cleaner future for the cruise industry,” added Tim Meyer. AIDAnova will leave MEYER WERFT in autumn 2018 for the North Sea and will be handed over to the shipping company after extensive testing. You can follow the construction of the new AIDA Cruises flagship both in the shipyard visitor centre and also online at www.meyerwerft.de. Photo/caption: The first steel block for AIDAnova weighs around 120 tonnes and is approx. 5 metres wide, 8.20 metres high and 21 metres long. Here it is being lifted by crane into the MEYER WERFT building dock. THE NAVIGATOR 05 THE GROUP ‘PARTNER DES JAHRES’ BECOMES ‘PARTNER OF THE YEAR’ AWARDS CEREMONY FOR THE BEST SUPPLIERS HELD IN TURKU FOR THE FIRST TIME or ten years, MEYER WERFT has presented the ‘Partner des Jahres’ award shipyards were joined by Klaus Lübbers, Chief Procurement Officer of the MEYER to its best suppliers as part of a celebratory event held at the Alte Werft group, and Jorma Holmström, Head of Purchasing at MEYER TURKU, to answer Fin Papenburg. This year, for the first time, a different setting was chosen questions on cruise ship building and procurement from the audience of more for the ‘Partner des Jahres 2016’ awards ceremony. On 23 May 2017, host than 200 guests. Four awards were presented in total: one from each of the MEYER TURKU invited guests to the ‘Logomo’ in Turku, a former industrial three shipyards, based on the supplier ratings of ships delivered in 2016, and one building which is now used as a venue for events, similar to the Alte Werft in from the Corporate Purchasing Department, which is responsible for concluding Papenburg. But it was not only the location that was different this year. For framework contracts across locations with suppliers. the first time, MEYER TURKU, MEYER WERFT and NEPTUN WERFT appeared together in a joint event on the international stage. As previously in Papenburg, The awards ceremony was kicked off by Merja Lindvall, a purchaser at MEYER the event was organised by the Purchasing department – and MEYER TURKU TURKU, who highlighted the achievements of prize-winner Huuhka Oy of Sauvo, did an excellent job. Finland, in her speech. Huuhka Oy has worked with the Turku shipyard on the internal fit-out of vessels for many years. The award was based on the excellent After the suppliers had been welcomed by representatives from the shipyards, result from the supplier rating for vessel S. 1389, Mein Schiff 5. In his speech, Bernard Meyer and Dr Jan Meyer shared interesting information with the audience the Head of Purchasing at NEPTUN WERFT, Gunnar Pallutz, drew attention to about the situation in the cruise ship construction market. This was followed the excellent work carried out by marine glazing Brombach + Gess of Balingen. by a question-and-answer session in which the managing directors of the two The company, which has previously been chosen as MEYER WERFT’s ‘Partner des 06 THE NAVIGATOR THE GROUP The prize winners and the yard management on stage during the awarding ceremony. Jahres’ three times, supplied the panoramic windows and skylights for the river cruise vessels S. 567 Viking THE ‘PARTNER DES JAHRES 2017’ WILL BE HELD IN WARNEMÜNDE IN Herja and S. 568 Viking Hild, and emerged as the best company based on the relevant supplier ratings. SPRING 2018. MORE INFORMATION WILL FOLLOW IN DUE COURSE. On behalf of MEYER WERFT, purchaser Jan Richter delivered a speech in honour of the prize-winner.