Rolls-Royce announces the cut of other 800 places of job in the division Marine



The Rolls-Royce group has announced the cut of 800 places of job in own division that takes care of the naval field, than currently occupies some 4.800 people and that it takes care mainly of the realization of systems of propulsion and technological systems and of the planning of naval units for the marine transport and the offshore industry. This decrease of the total dependent joins last year to the reduction of one thousand places of job communicated in the October and May months ( on 19 May and 5 October 2015).

"The persistent weakening of the market that it has made I keep on dramatic collapse of the price of the oil - the Marine president of the division of the group has explained, Mikael Makinen - continues to having an impact negative on our pocketbook orders and our results. We have completed meaningful Marine progresses in order to transform the field in a division very more flexible and simplified and must put into effect ulterior steps in order to reduce our business costs. That to reduce our staff - it has emphasized Makinen - is not never an easy decision but, to beyond the changes that we have made until today, we have not chosen if that not to assume ulterior measures".

Rolls-Royce previews that this cut, that it will altogether regard the several world-wide centers of the division, will determine costs of restructure pairs to about 20 million pounds that will weigh on the budgets of 2016 and of 2017 and that the half of the next year will beginning from allow annual savings pairs with 45-50 million pounds.

Moreover the group has announced that it previews to install to Ulsteinvik, in Norway, a research center and development for the planning of new systems of propulsion and a center services for the Europe North.

After a long period of results of positive sign, in the first Marine semester of the 2016 division of the group it has totaled a result before the financial burdens and of the taxes of sign negative and pairs to -13 million pounds. The revenues are piled to 548 million pounds, with a decrease of the -21,2% on the first half last year that it represents the fifth recorded consecutive semiannual bending from the volume of transactions generated in the segment Marine let alone from the pocketbook orders of the division that on 30 September has been attested 992 million to pounds, with a decrease of the -25,0% regarding the first semester of 2015.