Photo Gallery When The Ship Comes In
The Wadan shipyards are some of the best in the world as well as one of the biggest employers in eastern Germany. But after a new owner failed to deliver promised orders, the yards became insolvent. Now workers and their families are hoping a new Russian investor will keep his word.
Waiting for a decision: Norbert Weidt and his son Paul.
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Signs hanging off the back of the Wadan docks. they read: Work, Life and Future.
Foto: Z1017 Bernd Wüstneck/ dpa
The dry dock at Wadan was once a busy place. In the meantime, the place has fallen strangely silent.
Foto: Z1017 Bernd Wüstneck/ dpa
The scene at Wadan shipyards. The racket made by construction here belonged to this area like the smell of salt belongs to the sea.
Foto: Z1003 Jens Büttner/ dpa
A shipyard worker during a demonstration in 2009 after the shipyards were declared insolvent.
Foto: Z1003 Jens Büttner/ dpa
Shipbuilders at Wadan. In some families several generations have worked at the yards.
Foto: Bernd Wüstneck/ picture-alliance/ dpa
Working at Wadan. Employees have pinned their hopes on new investors and are waiting for the orders they have been promised.
Foto: Z1017 Bernd Wüstneck/ dpa
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