German shipyard files for insolvency
A switch to heavy lift and wind farm ships has failed to save the Sietas yard
The management of J.J. Sietas KG Schiffswerft GmbH u Co and J.J. Sietas Verwaltungs GmbH have filed a petition for insolvency at the Municipal Court Hamburg on 17 November 2011, due to over-indebtedness.
A statement from the company’s press agents says that the court has appointed a provisional creditors’ committee of inspection and, following a hearing of this provisional creditors’ committee of inspection, has appointed lawyer Berthold Brinkmann of Hamburg as the provisional insolvency administrator and also as consultant with regards to the conditions of opening insolvency proceedings. He will conduct the company’s future business dealings together with the management, which remains in office. The aim is to continue work on the five ships currently under construction and to maintain the Sietas Group as far as possible as a network.
The statement continues to say that: ”The management and the provisional administrator will inform the works council and the employees and conduct first consultations with clients and suppliers in order to maintain confidence in the work of the Sietas shipyard. All parties involved are working on the assumption that salaries will be secured through insolvency wage pre-financing up to 31 January 2012. Opening of the insolvency proceedings by the court is not expected before the end of January 2012.”
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