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.
Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
European Globalisation Fund (EGF)
Year: 2010, Case number: 25
250 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
4 June 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2008
Foreseen end date
Description
Odense Steel Shipyard, owned by A.P. Moller-Maersk, announced on 4th June that the shipyard will have to cut staff by 250 persons due to economic pressure. The recent years sales have declined. Before the decision was announced the employees and the management discussed how savings and cut downs in the company could be done in the least painful way. There is no information on the total number of employees.
Sources
4 June 2008: Business.dk
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Odense Staalskibsværft, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 66728, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66728.
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