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STX France will sell the ship yard of Lanester to the Kership
the transaction will be capacity to term in autumn
May 23, 2016
Navalmeccanico group French STX France will yield STX France Lorient, the branch that work the ship yard of Lanester, to the compatriot Kership, joint venture constituted in 2013 by the French groups active Piriou and DCNS respective in the fields of the civil and military shipbuilding. According to the forecasts, the transaction will be capacity to term in the course of the next autumn.
Remembering that the yard of Lanester previously was specialized in the construction of ships of length until 100 meters, STX France it has explained that recently the plant had accused an arrest warrant of the business activities because the most recent French orders than ships they have been acquired from the competitors Piriou and Kership, with the consequent recording of economic losses that have put in danger the survival of the yard. As a result of such crisis STX France has decided to centralize the activity of the yard of Lanester on the realization of elements for marine structures, reorganization that has involved the cut of job 47 places. The French group therefore has decided to sell the yard privileging the offer of the Kership regarding that introduced from shipbuilding society French CMN.
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