Damen Galați will become a military shipyard, from July 1, announced the director Damen Naval Romania, Gheorghe Savu, at the Defense Romania Security Dialogue 2025 – First Edition conference.
Damen Galați will become a military yard from July 1
“Our yard in Galați, starting July 1, is a military site. We are in a transition process in Al brings to military standards because there We will predominate military ships And we plan to deliver military ships including after 2034 in Galați.
Damen company is a company established and owned by the Damen family, so it is not a company listed on the stock exchange, this creates many advantages from the decision -making perspective of flexibility and dynamism. We have over 30 sites all over the world and we have over 12,000 employees.
The biggest investment is in Galați, where we hire 2,000 people in the site and I must emphasize that there are about 300 engineers, all Romanians, generally naval architects, who work in design or production in Galați.
We generally produce about 160 ships a year. Of these, the most important for us have become military. Since 2000, since we have the yard from Galați, we have produced over 300 military vessels. In Galati there were over 30 military vessels for NATO and EU states”, Said Gheorghe Savu, quoted by Dcnews.
Director Damen Naval Romania also referred to the Galati Naval Military Cluster, “unique not only in Romania but also in Europe“.”We also have Marine Engeneering Galați, which projects the most modern and complex military vessels that Damen produces. ”
The Galați Naval Shipyard, purchased by Damen in 1999, “It is the most important site Damen has, and investments in Galați are continuous. It was 20 years to bring it to the standards of a military yard, which fully meets NATO standards”, Said Gheorghe Savu.
“We are the only company in Romania that we produce and design on the national territory military ships. The value of the military projects that have been surrendered exceeds 2 billion euros. We produced 31 military vessels for 13 states. Relevant, for the capacity of the site, is that last year we produced two patrol vessels, the so-called light corvettes for Pakistan Support Ship – CSS, a very large and complex shipă ”said Gheorghe Savu, director Damen Naval Romania.
