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ThyssenKrupp signs a memorandum of understanding with Saab in order to yield them the ship yards in Sweden
the negotiations - they have specified the two groups - are still in preliminary phase
April 15, 2014
The ThyssenKrupp German is about to yielding own activities of shipbuilding in Sweden to the industrial group Swedish Saab AB. Today the Germanic group, through the branch ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions that it has about 19.000 dependent, offers to ingegneristici services and work also in the branch of the shipbuilding with the ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (been born from the fusion between the German shipbuilding societies Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft and Blohm+Voss Naval), has undersigned a memorandum of understanding with Saab for the cession of the Swedish branch of the ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems AB, branch that is constituted by the former Kockums, navalmeccanica company with about 900 dependent and plants to Karlskrona, Malmö and Muskö that have entered to take part last june of the ThyssenKrupp group and has assumed the denomination ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.
The groups German and Swedish have specified that the negotiations for the cession are still in preliminary phase. Saab has specified that the agreement is online with own objective to widen the activities in the naval field and to relatively satisfy the necessities of Sweden to the planning, construction and maintenance of submarines and military ships. With the sale of the activities in Sweden, instead, ThyssenKrupp it would concentrate own activities in the naval section in the German yards of Kiel, Amburgo and Emden, plants - it has emphasized the German group - that they have a pocketbook orders that job until 2020 assures.
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