The engineer Mr. Jorge Filgueira Ameneiros (Ferrol, 1966) is the new director of Navantia Ferrol, where he takes over from Mr. Rafael Suárez. He has just returned to his hometown after working in recent years in Navantia Australia, in Adelaide, where he was director of the program of the destroyers that the Spanish company builds in the country. Mr. Jorge Filgueira has a wealth of knowledge about different areas of the company, since he began his professional career in the public shipyards in the Carenas division, and later worked in the construction programs of Norwegian frigates and Australian mega-ships. The relay at the head of the river’s factories is part of the new organizational structure that the company has launched after the approval of the strategic plan for the future for the period 2018-2022 and the single collective agreement for ...
Resolution of the selection body for the Cátedra Cosme Álvarez de los Ríos scholarships call for internships in Navantia in the 2018/19 Course convened by the University of La Coruña and published in its electronic headquarters and on the UDC website on 18 December 2018.
The repair division of Navantia definitively left behind the hole it had experienced in 2017, when it closed an exercise in which it consolidated the recovery of the activity. Thus, during the past year, a total of 42 merchant ships passed through the installations of the old Astano and Bazán, 7 more than they did twelve months earlier. In percentage terms, it implies an increase of 20%. It stands out mainly in that volume of the fleet that has landed in the local factories gas carriers, in which the Galician Navantia is specialized. Specifically, 18 of the civil ships were gas, placing this figure to local plants in the fourth repairer of the world of this type of ships. Although the ship repair market is fluctuating, the forecasts managed by the sector are to maintain good levels of ...
Dña. Alicia Estévez Toranzo | Professor of Microbiology at the University of Santiago de Compostela