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a single offer for the acquisition of shipbuilding society STX France
the term for the presentation of the proposals will expire tuesday
December 27, 2016
Up to now to the court of Seul that is taking care of the cession of assets and activity of the navalmeccanico group STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. (STX O&S), than to half of this year is placed in controlled administration ( on 25 May 2016), a single offer for the acquisition of the participation of the South Korean group in the society STX France has reached that manages the French ship yard of Saint-Nazaire and whose capital is subdivided in a stopped 66.6% from STX O&S and STX Engines through STX Europe and in a quota 33.4% of property of the French State. Next tuesday, term for the presentation of the offers, the court will communicate if the cession could be put into effect.
If in the past weeks had reached the court four preliminary proposals, than according to indiscretions they would have been correspondents from the Damen Dutch, from the Genting di Hong Kong, French DCNS and the Fincantieri Italian, solo this last one - always according to indiscretions collections from the news agencies Reuters and AFP - would have forwarded a next offer now to the sieve of the court. If this or other reached offers meantime did not have to be accepted, the start of a new procedure of contest already in the next weeks is previewed.
While it seems to be vanished also the cession of the South Korean Goseong Offshore & Shipbuilding Co., one other ship yard of group STX O&S which offered for sale in the within of the reorganization plan and restructure of the navalmeccanico group, for which a single offer would be introduced that but would not be accepted because considered devoid by the financial point of view. Also for this cession a new contest would come indetta that could be under way at the beginning of 2017.
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