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Rolls-Royce will cut 600 places of work in the division Marine
the reduction of the organic one will be put into effect within year-end
May 19, 2015
the Rolls-Royce group has announced the cut of 600 places of work in own division Marine, than it takes care mainly of naval planning and the supply of energetic systems of propulsion and that currently some 6.000 people in 34 nations appoints to a job. The reduction of the organic one, than consisting sum to that more announced at the end last year that it will regard mainly the aerospace division of the group(of 5 November 2014), will have been put into effect within the end of this year. The company has specified that, even if the decrease of the places of work will happen to total level, half of the cuts will be carried out in Norway where they are localized the majority of the plants and the Marine dependent of the division.
Rolls-Royce previews that this last reduction of the staff will beginning from allow annual savings pairs with approximately 25 million pounds 2016.
"we are transforming our division Marine - has explained the president of the division, Mikael Makinen - and, even if we are completing good progresses relatively to the costs, the impact of the low price of the oil imposes us to continue in the search of ulterior efficiencies. That to propose our reductions is not never a decision easy of organic - it has emphasized Makinen - but is a sign of the difficult market in which we operate. We will work to tightened contact with the dependent and their representatives in order to manage this change. Marine the future perspectives of the division - it has specified - are shining and are focused on the maintenance of our position of technological leader. However now we must put into effect an ulterior cost reduction in way such from being able to grow tomorrow".
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