{"id":1483,"date":"2012-11-05T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2012-11-05T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:34:00","slug":"davie-yard-has-a-new-buyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"Davie Yard Has a New Buyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/Quebec+government+approves+Davie+Yards+sale\/7482434\/story.html#ixzz2BMIaZiz2\">Montreal Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Court appointed Bankruptcy monitor, since last August, has been weighing a bid from<a href=\"http:\/\/zafiromarine.com\/\"> Zafiro Marine<\/a>, a British operator of a fleet of offshore supply vessels of the<br \/>\nsame genre as the three now sitting uncompleted in the L\u00e9vis shipyard. The three partially completed offshore oil and gas service and pipe-laying<br \/>\nvessels have lain dormant at Davie since Norway&#8217;s Cecon ASA placed the<br \/>\noriginal order worth almost $500 million and then ran into financial<br \/>\nproblems.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The once vociferous Davie union says 900 workers could be recalled in<br \/>\n January, but the Quebec City region recently has had one of Canada&#8217;s<br \/>\nlowest jobless rates. <\/p>\n<p>Industry sources say it will cost about $250 million to finish the<br \/>\nthree vessels sitting in the Davie yard \u2014 they are 60 per cent complete.<br \/>\n Davie has two ferry orders worth $120 million for La Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des<br \/>\ntraversiers du Qu\u00e9bec &#8230; when the gates reopen. <\/p>\n<p>Denise Verreault, CEO of Les M\u00e9chins shipbuilder-repairer Groupe<br \/>\nMaritime Verreault Inc., estimates almost $1.5 billion of taxpayers&#8217;<br \/>\nmoney has been spent on Davie since 1985. <\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The Montreal Gazette: The Court appointed Bankruptcy monitor, since last August, has been weighing a bid from Zafiro Marine, a British operator of a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-build","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}