the German ship yards ask clear norms in order to compete with the weakened but always frightening Asian competition



The association of the German ship yards is satisfied of the results achieved during the last few years from the category that it represents. The Verband für Schiffbau und Meerestechnik (VSM) has listed today the most recent successes of national the navalmeccanica industry: "cruise ships that respect the atmosphere, the greatest offshore seismic ship for the prospecting of the oil and the gas, the longest mega yacht than always, the most innovative for research purposes world-wide scientific ship, the cell submarines to fuel and ships put down cables and put down pipelines and platforms offshore with excellence converter - it has evidenced the association - are only some examples of the current pocketbook of producing high tech of the field of the shipbuilding and German naval engineering".

These positive results - it has explained the VSM - are obtained because in the past decade many German constructors have placed themselves with success in consisting niches of the world-wide market.

Remembering that "during the last few years shipbuilding naval the traditional one has moved in great part in Far East - the German association - it has found that "however that region is now accusing losses of a largeness such that would be unimaginable in a nation as Germany. Japanese naval constructor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - he has specified the VSM - has been the first Asian navalmeccanico large group to record losses: the Japanese company has declared that its losses correlated to two cruise ships are piled to about a billion of dollars. Hyundai Heavy Industries, the greatest enterprise than shipbuilding world-wise, mainly attributes to its deficit budgetary almost three billions of dollars to various important projects for the offshore industry of the oil and the gas. But also these figures decidedly are exceeded by the losses endured from at least two of the greater Chinese ship yards, Rongsheng Heavy Industries Ltd. and STX Dalian, that they have brought back respective losses of 3,1 billion and 3,8 billion. And these - it has emphasized the Germanic association - are only some examples that evidence enormous structural imbalances on a global scale: the aggressive strategies of expansion pursued in the past by various operators key of the market are now meeting with the total weakening of the question"

Instead - it has found Harald Fassmer, president of the VSM and managing director of the ship yard Fassmer Werft - "contrarily to this total trend, in the course of the last year the industry of the constructions and German naval engineering has had turned out enough satisfactory: remarkable increases of the volumes of production, the acquisition of orders and the consistency of the pocketbook are recorded orders. However - it has specified Fassmer - even if the companies of this nation are not hit in full load from the total developments, the new solutions and the successes come soon copied from other producers and the crisis has pushed once again to many of the concurrent Countries launch important programs of aids". "These - the general manager of the VSM, Reinhard Lüken has denounced - are the same governments who for decades have hindered the introduction of tens of binding norms on the international commerce specific for the field of the shipbuilding. The efforts in order to introduce the norms anti-dumping and anti-subsidy, than in other industries constitute the solid structural base of the total market, have not still had happened".

The German navalmeccanica association has observed that the USA "have drawn own conclusions from this situation having made own all out protezionista politics for the naval industry. According to the American law - it has remembered the VSM - all the destined ships to commerce Americans must be constructed in the United States". "This - it has specified Lüken - cannot sure constitute a model for Germany, but it would have to be a point key in the agenda of it negotiate TTIP".

"More urgent - Fassmer has explained - is that the governments and on a national level European adopt solid industrial politics that points to unfold the growth potential of the marine field. In order to improve the state of the activity of our medium enterprises and to help them to have happened - it has clarified Fassmer - it would have to be defined a picture very planned of conditions of support and effective measures, in particular for research purposes, the development and the innovation. Our answer to the total challenges - it has concluded the president of the VSM - is constituted by the recognized qualities of the medium German enterprises".