The Navantia Puerto Real shipyard (Cádiz) will have an annual average of 9,000 employees in the years 2026 and 2027, according to forecasts communicated by the Government. This period will be the one with the highest occupancy in the facilities, due to the projects that will be developed at that time in them.
Esther Gil Reboleño, Sumar deputy for the province of Cádiz, addressed the central Executive to ask about the employment forecast at the shipyard for the coming years. The Government details in a written response that the direct jobs created are expected to be an average of 2,000 in 2024 and 5,000 in 2025 to continue growing and reach the maximum in the next two years.
The response, to which Europa Press has had and is dated January 24, the Government also indicates that it currently has closed the block construction contracts for the three Fleet Solid Support (FSS) vessels for the United Kingdom Navy, the manufacture of a Navy Underwater Intervention vessel and cruise ship repair contracts.
An investment of 25 million in 2023
Regarding the Seanergies business, it has a contract for the construction of the transition pieces of five offshore substations for two wind farms to be developed in the United States, a contract for two Substation Jackets for two wind farms in France and a contract for one Substation Jacket for The wind farm in the United Kingdom.
Likewise, the Government indicates in its response that in the General State Budgets for 2023 the main investments contemplated in the Puerto Real shipyard in the province of Cádiz, with the aim of adapting it to the business activity and within the modernization plans . , security and energy efficiency of the company, were the rehabilitation and adaptation of buildings and constructions of the shipyard, IT and Telecommunications media and equipment, Technical installations, Machinery, Tooling and work on gantries.
In addition, action was also taken in the shipyard’s flat panel line, with the Industrial Safety Plan or in the recovery of docks. In total, in 2023, the amount of planned investments is close to 25 million euros and the degree of execution thereof is almost 100%, the Government has indicated.
