The general manager denied that all employees at the Kimek shipyard in Kirkenes would be out of work
Starting June 1, 84 employees at the Kimek shipyard in Kirkenes will be out of work, FriFagbevegelse reported on Friday.
A Russian ship could have given them another month of work, but the sanctions stopped that.
– There is a hard ceiling here now, club manager Rainer Ingebrigtsen told the news website.
According to general manager Greger Mannsverk, this is not true. He said to E24 that no one has lost their job yet – yet.
– We have a board meeting on Tuesday next week where the board will take decisions based on government regulations. I don’t know what happened now. I have spoken to the main shop assistant and he is also very surprised by this issue. This is a big misunderstanding, says Mannsverk.
On Friday 12 May there was a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stating that all work, except emergency repairs, on the Russian ship was prohibited.
The shipyards in Kirkenes have been particularly hard hit – they account for 70 percent of the turnover of Russia’s fishing fleet in the Barents Sea.
If they were allowed to work on Russian ships and boats it would help the shipyards – currently one Russian ship is ashore and another in dock at Kirkens – both of which Kimek has worked on, but are no longer allowed to work. do this.
– We can work another month on that boat. That could buy us time to find a slightly more permanent solution, said Ingebrigtsen.
The effects will also be felt by the local community, as it is estimated that around 300 years of work in the local environment depend on the operations in Kimek, FriFagbevegelse further wrote.
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