Naval Group remains focused on Central Europe
French naval shipbuilder Naval Group continues to pursue export opportunities, eyeing Central Europe as one of the most promising markets.
Naval Group gives a lot of attention to its business activities in Central Europe, carefully following procurement programmes in countries such as Bulgaria, Poland and Romania.
‘For the past ten years we’ve been working in these countries to promote our wide range of products. Two main segments of activities are surface ships, with corvettes and frigates and submarines’ said François Dupont, Director of International Trade Department at Naval Group.
In Bulgaria Naval Group is particularly interested in the troubled procurement
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