Blohm+Voss will disembark in the Mediterranean with a ship yard for mega-yacht in the south of France


the navalmeccanica society Blohm+Voss di Amburgo will manage a plant for the maintenance and restructure of mega-yacht in the south of France. The ship yard will be realized to the Ciotat, in the region of the Provenza-Alps Costa Azzurra, and will be managed by the German company in cooperation with the SEMIDEP-Ciotat, French society that manages the yard of refit and repair of superyacht the Ciotat Shipyards situated in the French coastal city, that it will put on the just great dry dock and other structures.

the new activity will be started as a result of a contest that SEMIDEP has put into effect with the scope to select the apt partner, procedure who has carried to the selection of three proposals and to the final decision to collaborate with the German society, with which will come negotiates an agreement of rent of the initial duration of 35 months, period to conclusion of which Blohm+Voss previews will have created approximately 100 places of work and others 400 in the societies that work in I subcontract.

the plant, than second the forecasts will become operating the next November, will be able to serve mega-yacht of the length of beyond 80 meters.

"To install a plant for the maintenance of mega-yacht to the Ciotat - it has emphasized the managing director of Blohm+Voss, Fred van Beers - constitutes an important step in our current strategy of increase. With our new office to Monk and its central positioning in the Mediterranean - he has added - we carry our main activity nearer our customers and offer more flexible and specific services. The basin of the Ciotat is along 200 meters and wide 60 meters. Now our customers have the possibility to use our wide shipbuilding structures to Amburgo or in our new base to the Ciotat dedicated to the maintenance, the refit or the conversion of great yachts".

"We have chosen Blohm+Voss as our partner of confidence - the managing director of the Ciotat Shipyards has declared, Jean-Yves Saussol - for the quality of their business plan, for their immense experience, the solidity financial institution of the society and for their strong desire to work to tight contact with the local community. The services that Blohm+Voss will carry to the Ciotat will currently complete the offered services from our companies in the yard. Blohm+Voss has the intention of make use of the potential sinergico already anticipates and within the next month it will begin to speak with the partner that operates with the yard".