PARIS, ROME, and VICTORIA, British Columbia — Naval Group and Fincantieri are out of the running to compete in Canada’s program to acquire a fleet of new surface combatants after they failed to submit a bid through the formal process…
Categorie: Problems with projects
Cost overruns, long delays on a Turkish contract and a corruption scandal in Israel haunt the company. When the giant industrial concern ThyssenKrupp releases its annual results on Thursday, the focus will likely be on the company’s unprofitable steel division,…
De Franse scheepswerf DCNS is getroffen door een groot datalek. Meer dan twintigduizend pagina’s met geheime informatie zijn uitgelekt, zo berichtte de Australische krant The Australian. De data betreffen de Scorpène-duikboten die verkocht zijn aan India, Chili en Maleisië. Ook…
On Tuesday, Israeli police detained Vice Adm. Eliezer Marom (ret’d.), head of the Israeli Navy from 2007 to 2011, for questioning related to the ongoing ThyssenKrupp procurement scandal. The investigation centers on the actions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lawyer,…
PARIS, May 21 (Reuters) – French financial prosecutors have launched an investigation into a 6.7 billion euro ($7.5 billion) 2008 contract between naval supplier DCNS and Brazil that included the sale of five submarines, French daily Le Parisien said on…
De Fiod, de opsporingsdienst van de belastingdienst, heeft vrijdag een inval gedaan op het hoofdkantoor van Damen Shipyards in Gorinchem. Dat bevestigt een woordvoerder maandag van de grootste Nederlandse scheepsbouwer na berichtgeving door zakensite Quote. Volgens het Functioneel Parket gaat…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Technical trade secrets were stolen from the steel production and manufacturing plant design divisions of ThyssenKrupp AG (TKAG.DE) in cyber attacks earlier this year, the German company said on Thursday. The logo of German steel-to-elevators group ThyssenKrupp AG…
The 2004 purchase of two submarines from a German consortium that includied Ferrostaal, was eased through by the payment of €6.4 million in bribes to establishment figures in Portugal. People linked to the PSD/CDS-PP government and to the Portuguese Navy…
Het bericht dat de Australische premier Tony Abott 60 miljard euro gaat steken in de vernieuwing van de vloot, was dit weekeinde ook goed nieuws in Duitsland. Want de Australiërs gaan zelf fregatten, korvettenen en patrouilleboten bouwen, maar willen voor…
Corruption accusations have long plagued ThyssenKrupp’s submarine business, but documents obtained by Handelsblatt show the extent of the dubious methods used by employees at the German industrial giant. Selling submarines is a tricky business. You have to be half diplomat,…