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14 avril 2014 1 14 /04 /avril /2014 16:50
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG and Saab AB signed a non-binding MoU

 

 

04/14/2014 By VMSB - defesaglobal

 

ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG and Saab AB signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concerning the sale of the Sweden based shipyard ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems AB to Saab AB.

 

The negotiations between Saab AB and ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems AB are at an early stage and more information will follow.

 

The MoU is in line with Saab’s ambition to expand its activities in the naval area and meets the needs of Sweden for an industrial solution regarding design, production and maintenance of submarines and warships.

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14 avril 2014 1 14 /04 /avril /2014 16:50
ThyssenKrupp veut céder à Saab ses chantiers navals suédois

 

14/04/14  LesEchos(Reuters)

 

STOCKHOLM - ThyssenKrupp a annoncé lundi la signature d'une lettre d'intention en vue de la vente de ses chantiers navals suédois au groupe de défense Saab .

 

Après un différend commercial, le gouvernement suédois a exclu cette année de passer de nouvelles commandes de sous-marins au groupe allemand, préférant se tourner vers Saab pour sa stratégie future.

 

Saab a indiqué que le rachat de ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems lui permettrait de développer ses activités navales et aiderait la Suède à atteindre ses objectifs en matière de conception, de production et d'entretien de ses sous-marins et bâtiments de guerre.

 

ThyssenKrupp Marine emploie environ un millier de personnes en Suède, principalement à Malmö et Karlskrona dans le sud du pays. La filiale a réalisé un chiffre d'affaires de 1,9 milliard de couronnes (210 millions d'euros) lors de l'exercice fiscal 2011/2012, selon ses comptes annuels publiés en Suède.

 

Saab est détenu à 30% par la firme d'investissement suédoise Investor. (Mia Shanley, Véronique Tison pour le service français)

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4 avril 2014 5 04 /04 /avril /2014 07:50
Sweden Blocks Submarine Purchase

 

April 3, 2014 defense-aerospace.com

(Source: Radio Sweden; published April 2, 2014)

 

The Government Stops Planned Submarine Deal

 

The government puts an end to previous plans to buy two submarines from the German-owned company Kockums, Swedish Television News reports.

 

In the spring budget the government intends to note that the conditions are not right for a deal with the company, which is owned by the German group ThyssenKrupp.

 

But the government still sees a need for two new submarines to be built and two existing submarines to be modernised. The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration has already ordered a preliminary study from Saab, on whether this company could do the job instead.

 

According to Swedish Television News, Saab has already been recruiting submarine engineers from Kockums, while ThyssenKrupp is offering them bonuses to try to get them to stay in the company.

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10 janvier 2014 5 10 /01 /janvier /2014 08:50
German weapons firms : No farewell to arms

 

Jan 11th 2014 economist.com

 

Political pressure and bribery allegations are unlikely to hurt Germany’s exporters of military equipment

 

Since the second world war, Germany has rarely sent soldiers to combat zones. But it exports a lot of weapons: more than Britain, France or any other country besides America and Russia. Some German makers of military gear are part of civilian industrial giants, such as Airbus Group (which has dropped its ungainly old name, EADS, to adopt the brand of its commercial-aircraft business), and ThyssenKrupp, a steelmaker. But the biggest German company known mainly for weapons, Rheinmetall, is just 26th in the world league of arms-exporting firms. And Krauss Maffei Wegmann (KMW), which makes the Leopard 2 tank (pictured), is 54th.

 

Germans are, in general, proud of their export prowess. But although foreign sales of weaponry bring in almost €1 billion ($1.4 billion) a year, they are a delicate subject, and lately beset by bad press. Several German firms are accused of bribery in Greece. A former defence official there has said that of €8m in bribes he took, €3.2m came from German firms, including Wegmann (now part of KMW) and Rheinmetall. On January 3rd KMW’s alleged middleman was detained after a court hearing. The firm itself denies any bribery. Atlas, a maker of naval weapons owned jointly by Airbus and ThyssenKrupp, is under fire too. A former representative in Athens has reportedly admitted to bribery; the company says it is investigating the matter.

 

On another front, the industry faces criticism over the countries it sells to—most recently over a deal to sell Leopard 2s to Saudi Arabia. Arms sales to anywhere other than NATO and “NATO-equivalent” countries are in principle forbidden. But the Federal Security Council, headed by Chancellor Angela Merkel, can approve exceptions when foreign policy dictates, as long as they do not harm human rights.

 

Peace campaigners fear that the exceptions are becoming less exceptional. NATO countries’ budgets are being squeezed, so Germany’s armsmakers are looking farther abroad. Rheinmetall, for example, has a target of 50% of exports outside Europe by 2015. Asia is a growing target: Singapore recently signed a €1.6 billion deal for ThyssenKrupp submarines.

 

German small arms are also popular. Heckler & Koch’s G3 rifle (together with its variants) is the world’s most popular after the Russian AK-47. Germany was a leader in pushing the UN to restrict the flow of small arms to war-torn countries. But such weapons leak across borders nonetheless. This is why Helmut Schmidt, a former chancellor, in December urged Germany to restrict arms exports, calling gun deaths a slow-motion Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His fellow Social Democrat, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, promised to restrict sales if his party made it into government after last September’s elections. It did: Mr Steinmeier is now foreign minister, and sits on the Federal Security Council.

 

But Germany’s arms exports are probably in little danger, since they have the same reputation for reliability as its cars and other industrial goods. Even Pieter Wezeman of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a critic of weapons sales, compares a Heckler & Koch gun to a high-quality Leica camera. Though German soldiers mostly stay clear of combat zones, German weapons are battle-tested; Leopard tanks in the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, for example.

 

Moreover, there are ways to lessen the controversy of selling things used to wage war. For example, making guns for a fighter jet assembled elsewhere is less visible than selling a German-made tank. Military transport, logistics, surveillance and protective equipment together account for five times as much of German defence firms’ output as weapons and ammunition—and are less likely to be blamed for civilian casualties. Stephan Boehm, an analyst at Commerzbank, sees such non-lethal materiel as a bright spot for German exporters. The flagging fortunes of Rheinmetall, in particular, should be restored by strong sales of the armoured transporters it produces in a joint venture with MAN, a lorry-maker.

 

Critics say the government is too willing to let arms firms export to dodgy regimes. The Federation of German Security & Defence Industries argues that strong exports are crucial to spread the development costs of the equipment Germany needs to defend itself. This would be less of a problem, the lobby group admits, if Europe’s fragmented defence industry were consolidated; it says the government should not have vetoed a proposal last year to merge EADS with BAE Systems of Britain. Weapons account for less than 1% of Germany’s exports. But it is a 1% that it, like other countries, is loth to give up.

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3 juin 2013 1 03 /06 /juin /2013 17:20
Canada picks ThyssenKrupp ship design

OTTAWA, June 3 (UPI)

 

A design by ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems Canada for Royal Canadian Navy support ships has been selected by the Canadian government.

 

The Joint Support Ships, part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy, will supply fuel, ammunition, spare parts, food and water to deployed Navy Groups and also provide a home base for maintenance and operation of helicopters.

 

"The selection of the Joint Support Ship design was conducted through a transparent assessment process, involving multiple government departments and third party advisers, based on three criteria: operational capability, affordability, and the cost and schedule risks associated with building the ship," the government said.

 

"The process was monitored by audit firm KPMG, as an independent third-party. First Marine International, a recognized firm of shipbuilding experts, provided ship construction costing expertise."

 

The government had commissioned BMT Fleet Technology and ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems Canada for designs. BMT provided a new ship design while ThyssenKrupp provided an off-the-shelf design.

 

The government will give the design to Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd to review in preparation for actual production

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