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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.1 - Building of ships and boats
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
16 September 2021
Employment effect (start)
16 September 2021
Foreseen end date
30 September 2021
Description
As announced on 16 September 2021, the oldest shipyard in Germany will be cutting approximately 180 jobs in Hamburg by the end of September 2021 due to insolvency.
Pella Sietas had announced insolvency at the beginning of August 2021, however, the search for a new investor has been unsuccessful as of today. Insolvency money will run out by the end of September which will mean that almost all employees will be terminated. According to the insolvency administrator, only 20 employees will remain at the shipyard.
Sources
16 September 2021: Die Welt (online) (www.welt.de)
Eurofound (2021), Pella Sietas, Bankruptcy in Germany, factsheet number 105280, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105280.
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