<- Hard dé e: 0.030228853225708 sec -> The French arms sales are doing well. According to a study by the Ministry of Defence and CIDEF (council of French defense industries) with the support of McKinsey presented during the 12th University of Defence based in Bordeaux-Merignac, exports reached 6 € 87 billion in 2013, an increase of 42.7% over the previous year.
A performance that must primarily to several large contracts of over 200 million. They went from three to eight in the space of one year. Values less than 200 million orders were also up 20% to € 4.05 billion. Now, Saudi Arabia is the first customer to Brazil. In total, the Middle East accounts for 40% of orders against 16% for Asia South East, 11% in North Africa and 9% for South America.
If these exports have helped to reduce the trade deficit of the order of 5 to 8% over the period 2008-2013, the sector helps to support 40,000 employees, including about 14,000 direct jobs and 13,500 indirect in first-tier suppliers. Added to this is between 11 and 13,000 induced jobs. In total, these employees represent a quarter of all jobs in the defense.
Seven major basins advantage of this situation, the Ile de France, PACA, Brittany, Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrénées, and Central and Rhône-Alpes.
In addition, this study shows that military technologies Thales, Safran, Airbus and DCNS also have civilian spin-offs: carbon brakes for airliners, electronic toll collection systems on highways, flight controls Falcon aircraft …
For 2014, the year looks a little worse than 2013 “Half the journey is done and we will be at least € 6 billion,” Does it puts the defense ministry. Several contracts are outstanding: a French-Saudi agreement on arms supplies to Lebanon in the amount of EUR 2.8 billion. Paris also hopes to sell 126 Rafale fighter jets to India for an amount of EUR 8.6 billion. Turkey could also develop a system of long-range missiles.
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