The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Pays de la Loire; Pays de la Loire; Loire-Atlantique
Location of affected unit(s)
Saint Nazaire
Sector
Manufacturing (29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
170 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
14 April 2006
Employment effect (start)
31 May 2006
Foreseen end date
29 December 2006
Description
Alstom, the French engineering group, is to form a new joint venture with Norwegian shipbuilder Aker Yards, after selling Aker a majority stake in its biggest shipyard, 'Chantiers de l'Atlantique'. The sale is to be concluded on 31 May 2006. It will be based in the French west-coast town of Saint Nazaire, the site of the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard, which will be renamed Aker Yards Saint Nazaire. The French shipyards have a healthy order book, including five large ocean liners, three gas carriers which are under construction for Gaz de France, all due before June 2009. In France, the group employs 3,000 jobs on the only shipyards localised in the French west-coast town of Saint Nazaire. The group should create 170 jobs in Saint Nazaire before December 2006.
Eurofound (2006), Aker Yards, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 63349, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/63349.
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