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Four offers for the acquisition of the South Korean yard STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co.
Between the candidates there would be Damen, Fincantieri and DCNS
November 4, 2016
They are the four offers for the acquisition of STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. reached the court of Seul that it supervises to the procedure of failure of the navalmeccanica society, all proposals - reached within the fixed expiration date in order today - that they are introduced by foreign companies.
If the court has not announced the names of the candidates to the acquisition, that he includes also the quota 66.6% of shipbuilding society French STX France stopped from the South Korean company, having limited itself to specify that not draft of South Korean companies, the daily paper "Seoul Economic Daily" has confirmed, as already announced from various sources, than between the candidates there would be the navalmeccanico group Dutch Damen, that Fincantieri Italian and that French DCNS.
While the French government, with a declaration of the minister to the Industry, Christophe Sirugue, yield to the Reuters news agency, has informed that he will oppose himself to any hypothesis of sale of STX France, of which the French State stops remaining 33.34% of the capital, that it goes against the industrial interests national French. "We - the minister has explained - have two instruments of participation and, if us they had to be offered that they are not online with our industrial strategies, we do not hesitate to use them".
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