The P525 Rota was launched in 2007 and is the newest patrol ship in the Diana class, which is now to be replaced by new patrol ships. Here, a rescuer prepares to be hoisted onto Rota in an exercise off the coast of Frederikshavn. Illustration: Kristian Vinther Brøndum.
The then-Minister of Defence Morten Bødskov had called a press conference with the frigate Peter Willemoes as a backdrop. There he laid out the government’s political ambitions to revive Danish shipbuilding and explained how the Danish Armed Forces—in cooperation with Danish industry—would once again build warships from scratch.
They ended up with an extremely advanced 21-metre-long snake robot with as many as nine axes and a range of six metres, and the University of Southern Denmark then established its own institute for robot research—which was named the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute. But even with the help of the advanced robots, none of the Danish shipyards could hold out. The outsourcing of shipbuilding did not only happen because of high Danish wages.
Up to 85 percent of the welding tasks at the Danish shipyards were automated with robots throughout the 1990s and 2000s, and the frigate Niels Juel was built in less than a million hours, which corresponds to around 520 full-time workers. No other country has matched that pace of shipbuilding since.But even though working hours only make up about a fifth of the cost of building a ship, the automation was not enough to keep Danish shipyards alive when competitors receive massive state aid.
For the time being, the ship designers at Odense Maritime Technology are working hard on drawing the lines for Denmark’s future patrol ships, and in this work, they are not only taking into account the operational requirements of the Danish Armed Forces, but also the robots’ working conditions: On Lindø, Fayard has taken over Odense Steel Shipyard’s large old dry dock, but they mainly carry out conversions and repairs of large container ships. The same applies to Orskov Yard in Frederikshavn, which however has experience in maintaining the Royal Danish Navy’s ships. Karstensens Skibsvaerft in Skagen owns a Polish shipyard, which today builds ship hulls from scratch.Environmental protection vessel Mette-Miljø. Illustration: Forsvarsgalleriet.
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