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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
2,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
30 June 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
Qinvest, a large investment bank, has created 2000 new jobs through its purchase of a shipyard in Gdynia, Poland.
On 30 June 2009, the Polish Minister of the Treasury announced the identity of the investor purchasing the Gdynia shipyard (Stocznia Gdynia) - Qinvest, the largest investment bank in Qatar. The new investor has undertaken to hire 2,000 workers for the shipyard by late 2009; they are expected to build three or four liquefied gas tankers every year.
Sources
30 June 2009: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł Webside (www.wnp.pl)
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Stocznia Gdynia, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 69219, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69219.
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