Xenokostas at the 4th Economic Conference of “N”: Shipyards’ transformation into a regional energy and technological hub

The completion of the archetypal signifier of the revival of Greek shipyards and the transition to the second, much demanding signifier of their transformation into a determination vigor and technological hub was announced by the President & CEO of ONEX Shipyards & Technologies Group and President of the Association of Hellenic Shipyards, Panos Xenokostas, speaking astatine the 4th Economic Conference organized by Naftemporiki.

Xenokostas emphasized that ONEX shipyards person completed astir 800 vessel repairs successful the past 7 years — a grounds fig successful the past of the manufacture — straight and indirectly employing implicit 2,000 workers.

“We person won the stake connected competitiveness,” Xenokostas stated and added: “We person proven that we tin cope, and of people with the decisive support of Greek shipowners, to whom we are grateful. From shipyards that person been inactive for 20 years with unpaid workers and debts of fractional a billion, we person created units that successfully vie with shipyards successful the Middle East and Europe.

Strengthening competitiveness and restoring the trust of the shipping assemblage are cardinal results of the archetypal phase. Greek shipyards present run with planetary standards, competitory costs and reliable transportation specifications,” helium said.

The 2nd phase: From shipyards to vigor hub

Xenokostas analyzed the improvement program of the Syros and Elefsis shipyards into a “modern infrastructure supporting vigor security, integrated logistics and defense,” with accent on:

• LNG and LNG Carriers support
• Infrastructure and services for offshore / nearshore vigor projects
• Construction of infrastructure for offshore wind farms successful the Aegean
• New propulsion technologies
• Integrated logistics for the Balkans and Eastern Europe

He besides pointed retired that the President of the United States, the largest system successful the world, has focused connected the revival of the home shipbuilding industry. He referred to the value of the beingness of a special bureau successful the White House for shipbuilding policy, emphasizing: “This demonstrates the strategic value of the sector, not lone for shipbuilding, but besides for supporting infrastructure related to vigor security, vigor transformation and supply concatenation security.”