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Dutch IHC will close two ship yards and will cut beyond job 2.000 places
Decision assumed as direct consequence of the fast deterioration of the market
June 11, 2015
The navalmeccanico group Dutch Royal IHC, specialized mainly in the production of naval units for the mining field and the offshore industry, has announced a drastic reduction of the staff that will involve the cancellation of beyond job 2.000 places on about 3.000 in the company, let alone the halving of the productive plants, with the next closing of two yards.
IHC has explained that such decision is assumed which direct consequence of the fast deterioration of the market and represents an acceleration of the process of business restructure announced last year that aimed to reduce the dependency of the society from fields "birds" of the shipbuilding one, but also to develop to the activity in other fields legacies to the navalmeccanica or activity as the service and the chartering.
The measures full-time preview within the end of this year the cancellation of job 487 places and of others 1,127 employ fixed-term. Moreover the ship yards of Sliedrecht and Hardinxveld will be closed, while the yards of Krimpen and Kinderdijk so as the headquarters of the group to Sliedrecht will continue to being operating.
IHC clearly has archived item exercise 2014 with a profit of 124,0 million euros on revenues for 1,2 billion euros, with increments respective of +120.2% and +23.4% on economic exercise 2013. The EBITDA is piled to 191,9 million euros (+77,8). If the economic results have recorded a meaningful improvement, the new acquired orders from the group, instead, are dropped drastically coming down to a value total of 582,9 million euros in the 2014 regarding almost 1,8 billion euros in the year precedence, bending - it has explained the company - that is determined by the worsening of the market recorded in particular in the last trimester of 2014.
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The navalmeccanico group Dutch Royal IHC, specialized mainly in the production of naval units for the mining field and the offshore industry, has announced a drastic reduction of the staff that will involve the cancellation of beyond job 2.000 places on about 3.000 in the company, let alone the halving of the productive plants, with the next closing of two yards.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
