Navantia started yesterday the work program of the two Maritime Action Ship (BAM) for the Ministry of Defence and the Spanish Armada by cutting the first steel simultaneously in shipyards in the Bay of Cadiz and the Ria de Ferrol.
According Navantia said yesterday in a statement, at 13.00, Navantia president, José Manuel Revuelta, went to the Ministry of Defence to the act of signing the execution order of the two BAM with the Director General of Armaments and Material, Lieutenant General Juan Manuel García Montaño. Minutes after the company started simultaneously in Ferrol and San Fernando sheet cutting each of the two BAM responsible for the Navy. This order of execution, the company added, is a return to military construction after more than eight years since the previous dates from July 2006, with the Frigate F-105 and the first series of the BAM (4 vessels).
This custom began when the Cabinet authorized last August 1 the budget for both boats, then the agreement between Navantia and Defence updated, and yesterday the death warrant was signed and cut the first plate.
The public shipbuilding company explained that the work begun yesterday in both vessels consist of cutting the first steel block 3011, corresponding to the keel and weighing 67 tons. These two ships are part of the extension of the first series of the BAM, who will join the four existing units from 2018, “and incorporate all measures regarding environmental Marpol regulations, including new engines propellers, auxiliary and emergency and ART treatment plant wastewater, “the statement said. He also said the company “will incorporate improvements aimed at weight reduction, new equipment obsolescence derivatives, fitness for a greater allocation and implementation of the updated information on prevention and operational safety regulations”.
This contract has a value of 333.48 million euros and represents 2.2 million working hours for both own staff and for the auxiliary industry.
The launch of these new orders for various rating Navantia raised yesterday. The first came from the Government. At a press conference, the Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said that the Cabinet has already authorized the Ministry of Industry to finance both vessels, about 335 million euros. He added that the “intent” of the Ministries of Defence and Industry is to “accelerate the conclusion of the two contracts so that it can be started to work in the coming days or weeks in the shipyards affected.” The period of construction of the two new ships will be four years and, according to the vice president, “per million euros annual turnover of the project about 17 direct and indirect jobs are created.”
He also said that the government estimates that “direct or indirect value added to the economy will be approximately 114.8 million euros a year”, while during the construction period “will be generated near 1,350 direct and indirect jobs per year. ” These two BAM are an old claim of the Navy, who has spent several years writing off other similar ships were already obsolete and therefore has need for new units.
Also, the PP president of Cádiz, Antonio Sanz; national and Deputy Mayor of Cadiz, Teofila Martinez, president of the council of Cadiz and San Fernando Mayor Jose Loaiza, described yesterday in a statement of “great news” for the province signed the death warrant and BAM cut veneer. In his view, “the Bay of Cadiz are in luck because the beginning of a new era of great prosperity for our shipbuilding industry is reaffirmed,” what added his appreciation to the Government of Rajoy “for his commitment” to the Cadiz shipyards, despite the “tripping” the PSOE who criticize his “destructive and confrontational” attitude.
The popular president said, “Today begins a new future for the Cadiz shipyards”. It recalled that the construction of the new BAM will “more than two years of work for shipyards and generate 500 jobs, bringing new jobs for electrical substation Iberdrola and lng fifth will add” ensuring, as he added, ” workload for a period of at least four years, peak employment of 10,000 jobs and benefits for 250 companies of the auxiliary industry. ” “The PP will keep faith with shipyards,” he added.
In the same vein, the government delegate in Andalusia, Carmen Crespo, moved yesterday its “Congratulations” Cadiz and Navantia shipyard before the execution order of the BAM will allow, after signing the agreement, ” move forward “with a workload” for two and a half years “and a” 500 “. He added that it is “great news for Andalusia” These contracts allow shipyards kept “running” and provide “good chance the Bay of Cádiz” are met.
Finally, the provincial secretary of the PSOE in Cádiz, Irene Garcia, congratulated all the workers in the shipbuilding sector of the Cadiz Bay, and especially the staff of Navantia, to confirm the signing of the order of execution. “Although it is three years behind the time when the PP may have already made that decision, finally one of five BAM committed by the previous Socialist government is going to become a reality,” Garcia said.
In this regard, said that this is the BAM “most desired and has been longed for more time workers Navantia and throughout the Bay naval sector”. He considered it a “great news” to clear the “concern” about the naval sector and to ensure jobs. So said the “essential role” of workers in securing the levees recover the activity after years of “growing unrest”. In his view, workers in Navantia and its subsidiary companies “spent years giving a real lesson in responsibility in defending an essential heritage for the Bay of Cadiz and the province, as are its shipyards”.
He recalled that before the PSOE abandon the government after the general election of 2011, the Council of Ministers “Let approved the development of the second phase with five BAM, with the arrival of PP, stayed in two and, of the two, only one is for the Bay “.
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