The History
Towards the end of 1999, the Danish ship building industry lost one of its shipyards. It was Danyard, the 139 year-old shipyard in Frederikshavn.
For more than a 1,000 years, ships have been built in Denmark. During the last 150 years, the ship building industry has been one of the main corner stones in the Danish economy supplying lots of jobs. The business was so large that you could see the trade of a ship from the quarterly statements of the balance of payments.
The industry was so important that it was subsidised by the state with cheap loans, export credits and tax advantages.
Today, just one large shipyard is left, but the ship building tradition is continued at smaller ship and boat builder yards around the country.
Frederikshavn has also been dependent on the ship building industry and with the closing of the town's two large shipyards, the town has an identity problem as well as an employment problem. A large part of the town's employment, economy and educational system has been dependent upon this heavy industry and the coming years will show if Frederikshavn will stagnate as a market town or it will develop a new niche that it can continue its development upon.
We will try to give an historical account of the town's largest work place and as one of the important industries in Denmark, which has been closed down.
Now is the time to record and maintain the history as in a few years time, it may be too late.
Towards the end of 1999, the Danish ship building industry lost one of its shipyards. It was Danyard, the 139 year-old shipyard in Frederikshavn.
For more than a 1,000 years, ships have been built in Denmark. During the last 150 years, the ship building industry has been one of the main corner stones in the Danish economy supplying lots of jobs. The business was so large that you could see the trade of a ship from the quarterly statements of the balance of payments.
The industry was so important that it was subsidised by the state with cheap loans, export credits and tax advantages.
Today, just one large shipyard is left, but the ship building tradition is continued at smaller ship and boat builder yards around the country.
Frederikshavn has also been dependent on the ship building industry and with the closing of the town's two large shipyards, the town has an identity problem as well as an employment problem. A large part of the town's employment, economy and educational system has been dependent upon this heavy industry and the coming years will show if Frederikshavn will stagnate as a market town or it will develop a new niche that it can continue its development upon.
We will try to give an historical account of the town's largest work place and as one of the important industries in Denmark, which has been closed down.
Now is the time to record and maintain the history as in a few years time, it may be too late.
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