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France dismissed on Saturday calls to nationalise the Saint-Nazaire shipyard in the western part of the country after South Korea's STX Offshore & Shipbuilding said it was considering selling its own share of the facility. The group, which has been hurt by a downturn in the global shipping industry since the financial crisis, is also mulling the sale of shipyards in Finland and China.
Unions are calling for the state, which holds a 33 percent stake in the Saint-Nazaire shipyard to nationalise the site, which employs 2,000 people and is one of the largest in Europe. "The Saint-Nazaire shipyard needs more orders, not a new shareholder, because the working tool works well," French Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg said in an interview with the daily, Le Monde, along with three trade unionists.
"Nationalising without any orders would serve no purpose," the minister said. "We met the conditions in December 2012 to land an order for a giant liner and we continue to work to ensure the long-term future of the site." The government helped the shipyard, then threatened with bankruptcy due to a lack of orders, win a 1 billion euro ($1.31 billion) contract to build the world's largest cruise liner.

Copyright Reuters, 2013

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