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Ship yards P+S Werften towards the state of insolvency
Angela Merkel confirmation that the company cannot more count on the economic support of the State
August 21, 2012
The state of difficulty of ship yards P+S Werften is aggravated. The two thousand dependent of the company are raggelati by the declaration of the German cancelliera Angela Merkel who, meeting the summits of the navalmeccanica society to Stralsund, has confirmed that the yards cannot more count on the economic support of the State and must therefore introduce failure request.
According to the managing director of P+S Werften, Rüdiger Fuchs, the state of fine insolvency can still be avoided and to such negotiations with the customers and the suppliers of the yards are on that - it has specified - will be extended for several days.
To conclusion of the today's reunion of the government of the Land of Meclemburgo-Pomerania Front, centralized on the situation of crisis of the ship yards, the spokesman of the executive Andreas Timm has explained that still decisions are not assumed and, also confirming that the company it will not receive more deep federal civil servants neither, has emphasized that the government of the Land and that headquarters promuoveranno the possible restructure of the yards also in case of failure.
Last month the EU commission had authorized the distribution of a temporary aid of the value of 152,4 million euros to P+S Werften with the scope to maintain in activity the plants in sight of their restructure ( of the 11 July 2012), economic support that but is not sufficient to guarantee the survival of the German yards.
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