Balance sheet 2600 jobs deleted by 2011

All eyes turned to the Germany. The champion of building naval European had seen its order book by between 2000 and 2007. In a few months only, il it gives the impression of sinking. Not a week or almost without falls bad news on its sites. Last: the announcement, mid-November, suppression of 400 jobs on 2,150 in Hegemann, third employer of the German Navy. The previous month, it was the ThyssenKrupp conglomerate who decided to withdraw from civil shipbuilding. Advertisements that follow a succession of deposits of balance (Lindenau, SSW, SMG, Cassens, Wadan), and plans for jobs at JJ Sietas losses at Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven or Hamburg.

All these projects were yet still, there are few, at the centre of a model of effective development. They built in series of container ships financed by the collection of tax savings. But the container market collapsed, leaving the tile of the hundreds of ships without charterers. And the German shipyards, which were able to produce competitively relatively standard ships when the market was booming, have suddenly renewed with a brutal reality: they are expensive, too expensive, as the euro started to fly from Summit. Result: the German model is in crisis and it is not known if he will survive. More no container control has been passed a year in Germany and the construction of sixty ships has been canceled. Beautiful industrial-financial solidarity of the "standort Deutschland" (the Germany as a competitive production) broke out. Werner Lüken, Director General of Lloyd Werft and President of the association of the German shipyards VSM, said mid-November that German banks were no longer their work to the building. He immediately received a flock of green wood of the bankers who said that many German sites were more viable.

15,000 jobs will disappear

This phenomenon affects Europe. "With ads and current plans, 15,000 jobs will disappear in the European Union," provides Heino Baden, trade unionist of IG Metall on behalf of the European Federation of metalworkers, which announces the loss of thousands more to come.

In the Denmark, giant AP Moller announced the gradual closure of its site of Odense, historical provider of its subsidiary Maersk, which will command now in Asia. Balance sheet: 2,600 jobs deleted by 2011. In Italy, the public group Fincantieri has developed hundreds of employees in technical unemployment and could quickly remove 1,000 jobs over 9.400. In Turkey, at least 10,000 employees on 35,000 have lost their work. At Saint-Nazaire, Finland, and Norway, the concern is very strong at STX Europe in the hands of a Korean group who suffers also.

As in Asia, the crisis is felt. Of course, depreciated by a more spread in time and almost complete backlog until 2011-2012. Nevertheless, the South Koreans, Chinese and Japanese that swept most of standard ships orders worldwide (container ships, bulk carriers and oil tankers) have been raking that some contracts a year. The Korean average weight C & Heavy Industries has even been wiped off the map.

"Development model, where each had relatively place, is put to the carpet by the crisis and the fall in orders for some time", finds Paul Tourret, Director of the higher Institute of maritime economy (Isemar). Europe risk the Korea, threatened by China, the India or the Viet Nam, focus on his specialty, vessels to higher value-added (ferries, offshore). "Europe, concludes the researcher, must make strategic choices to maintain naval construction as an industrial area of continental importance, but also as a central component of many of the economies of the maritime regions.