 After 1945 shipyards in Danzig, Königsberg and Elbing were found on the Soviet and Polish territories, and the company restarted business in Bremerhaven in West Germany, merging with the Schiffbaugesellschaft Unterweser in 1972 to become Schichau Unterweser and with Seebeckwerft in 1988 to become Schichau Seebeckwerft.The company was then bought by Bremer Vulkan and initially closed in 1996.The new "SSW Schichau Seebeck Shipyard GmbH", founded in 1998, was closed in 2009.