Greece strengthens its shipbuilding sector with a new joint project between the Skaramangas shipyard and France’s Naval Group

The Greek shipyard Skaramangas has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Naval Group, the French leader in shipbuilding and defense technologies. The agreement was officially signed in Athens, and the partnership aims to strengthen Greece’s shipbuilding capacity and support the modernization of the country’s navy, BalkanEngineer.com learned from the shipyard’s official website.

The agreement provides for the transfer of advanced technologies, joint maintenance of combat ships, and the Greek shipyard’s participation in the French group’s international projects. The partnership emphasizes the technological modernization of the infrastructure in Skaramangas. This will enable the facility to carry out complex engineering tasks to the highest NATO standards.

The shipyard’s management emphasizes that the alliance with Naval Group is crucial for the revival of Greece’s heavy industry. The investment will create new highly skilled jobs for engineers and technical specialists, and the commercial partnership reinforces Skaramangas’s position as a major shipbuilding and repair center in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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