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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
145 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 August 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2006
Description
The group Aker Yards from Norway, owning the shipbuilding units Braila and Tulcea, signed the eighth contract in this year. With this signing the number of ships that will be produced in the next two years amounts to 12, of a total value of EUR 320 million. The shipyard will utilise its full production capacity. As a result, the number of employees of the shipbuilding unit Braila will increase this year by 145 (from 2,100 in 2005 to 2,245 in 2006).
Sources
29 August 2006: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Aker Yards, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 63991, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63991.
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