“We want to grow to 3,000 employees, we are looking or people (…) from machinists to engineers. We have a recruitment plan for the shipyard. We got almost 150 people and all those on furlough returned to work full-time,” Florin Spataru, HR and corporate affairs director and also a member of the company’s board of directors, told ZF. The Dutch owners of the shipyard brought him from Damen Galati to handle recruitment and site development.
The acquisition of the Mangalia shipyard was completed on July 20, 2018 and Damen Shipyards Group bought the majority stake from South Korea’s Daewoo and transferred 2% to the Romanian government, so the Economy Ministry will hold 51% in it via Santierul Naval 2 Mai Mangalia SA.
The latest available data show the Mangalia shipyard ended 2017 with 988 million (over EUR200 million) revenue, half the 2016 level.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)