Frederikshavns Skibsværft ca. 1975
Orskov Yard A/S converts and repairs all types of vessels and offshore constructions and offers an extensive range of marine services. In close cooperation with other marine specialists, we provide all-round, onestop solutions covering all aspects of ship repair and conversions. Our services include e.g. steel works, pipe and cable installation, overhaul of engines, welding of propellers, straightening of propeller shafts, overhaul of thrusters, sandblasting, and painting.
Ørskov Christensen‘s Steel shipyard A/S
Created 1958-10-28 by director Arne Ørskov Christensen, who had previously set up a machine shop in the city. Today the yard has 2 docks and 2 floating docks. The largest dry dock is 215 x 34, the second largest 170.6 x 25.4 meters. The largest dock can lift 4,300 tons, the smallest 3,000 tons. The largest was bought from B&W in the 1970s.
The shipyard built the first years of fishing vessels in technical cooperation with Knud E. Hansen’s design and marketing collaboration with shipping and brokerage company Otto Danielsen, Copenhagen. From 1962, the yard also built coasters. The first was GITTE DANIELSEN, a 299 ‘s, which was followed by five sisters.
In 1972, the second generation, the son Niels Ørskov Christensen, was head of the yard, which from 1972 became a limited company with the father and Niels Ø.C. as shareholders, from 1982 Niels Ø.C. as sole proprietor. When Danyard Frederikshavn closed, the Ørskov shipyard hired up the areas of the Danyard so that they could use the two docks.
The shipyard had to undergo a reorganization shortly after the millennium and was reconstructed as a new company, Orskov yard A/S in 2003, where the third generation of the family directs the enterprise with his son, Jeppe Ørskov Christensen as director and daughter Christina as Chairman of the board.
Ørskov 2017-18
Dock 4 – dry dock
Cranes 50 tonnes + 50 tonnes
Dock 3 – dry dock
Cranes 100 tonnes + 20 tonnes
Dock 2 – floating dock
Cranes 10 tonnes + 5 tonnes
Mobile Crane
Kulkaj
Montagekaj
Andelskaj
Østre Kaj
Mellemkaj
Oliepieren
Frederikshavn is a Danish town in Frederikshavn municipality, Region Nordjylland, on the northeast coast of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. Its name translates to “Frederik’s harbor”. It was originally named Fladstrand.
The town has a population of 23,296 (1 January 2019), and is an important traffic portal with its ferry connections to Gothenburg in Sweden and Oslo in Norway. The town is well known for fishing and its fishing and industrial harbours.
Frederikshavn’s oldest building, Fiskerklyngen, is originally from the mid-16th century, but the houses now there are from 18th–19th centuries.
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