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Austal closes the activities of service carried out in Spain and the center services of Henderson
Cut of job 26 places
May 2, 2013
The navalmeccanico group Australian Austal has announced the closing of the activities of service carried out in Spain and the closing of a center services situated to Henderson with transfer of such activities in the ship yard of the group situated in the same resort, that it is placed to eight kilometers to south of Fremantle. Austal has specified that still the decision is not assumed if to sell or to rent the center that was created which center of services satellite of the main yard of Henderson.
"To combine the center services with the ship yard, that little hundreds of meters of distance are situated hardly - has explained the managing director of Austal, Andrew Bellamy - have sense from financial the logical point of view and. The consolidation will offer a greater operating flexibility to us being profitable is the activities of shipbuilding that those of service more competitive through a general cost reduction and will reunite management in a single center". The closing of one of the two alleviates of Henderson involves the cut of job 12 places.
About the cessation of the activity in Spain, and the consequent lay-off of 14 people, Bellamy it has emphasized that "the Spanish center of services has been a lot engaged, however - it has specified - the economies Spanish and European they have represented a too much great weight for the profit of this activity".
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The navalmeccanico group Australian Austal has announced the closing of the activities of service carried out in Spain and the closing of a center services situated to Henderson with transfer of such activities in the ship yard of the group situated in the same resort, that it is placed to eight kilometers to south of Fremantle. Austal has specified that still the decision is not assumed if to sell or to rent the center that was created which center of services satellite of the main yard of Henderson.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
