The day before, Holland Damen shipyards group (DSC) and modified Damen shiprepair company plans to cut about 150 workers, as one of the company's three largest shipyard restructuring initiatives.
DSC plans to cut about 150 workers
This involves restructuring three shipyards and refitting Damen shiprepair company's are Dahmen Rotterdam repair shipyard (DSR), Dahmen Van Brink dockyaryds (DSVB) and Damen Foley Sin (DSVl) Enxiu shipyard.
To the three Damen shipyard repair workers and trade union informed the restructuring and modification of information, Damen shiprepair (DSC) company hopes to complete the restructuring before the summer of 2017, and explained that adverse market conditions continued to put pressure on companies to take these measures.
The downstream oil and gas market, the company's business and Damen shiprepair modification activities affected, remedy cannot use other projects. Worse, these projects do not see signs of recovery in the short term.
As commodity prices, especially oil and gas prices, no recovery, reduce ship maintenance project, which prompted the company to re-examine the Damen shiprepair and modification of the situation, the result is the need to reduce the permanent staff at all levels of the organization, reduce the cost.
It is reported that Damen shipyards group has 33 operations in shipbuilding and ship repair enterprises, up to 9000 employees worldwide. With the modification of Damen shiprepair company in the global total of 16 ship repair and ship refitting enterprises, each year about 1500 times of ship repair and maintenance work.