Vigo's shipyards go on working
The shipyards of Vigo have orders until 2008, by a value of 800 million euros.
Delivery of the Sebastian de Ocampo, new rescue vessel
The tugboat Sebastián de Ocampo was given 27 of May so that it comprises of the Coastguard Service of the Goverment of Galicia. It will count on a complete equipment for marine rescue and the fight against the contamination in the sea.
The company Schneider Electric promotes its new products
The French company Schneider Electric, world-wide lider of its sector, organized in Cadiz a meeting with shiyards and shipownes
Increase of income in the Galicia's naval sector
The magazine Economists emphasizes the increase in the added value of the Galician naval construction in the last years
Port Vigo, included in the Short Sea Shipping
Vigo is between the most important ports of Europe as far as its connections through the calls ”Freeways of the Sea”
Aids of 20m.€ to spanish shipyards
The European Commission authorized last March 16 the state of aids by value of 20 million euro that the spanish government will grant to the innovation in its shipyards in the next two years.
Marine security
1.200 oil tankers monocoque will disappear before the 2010
The costs are the main problem to compete
The shipyards consider an alliance to fight against Asia and emergent Europe