{"id":5296,"date":"2026-04-15T12:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/5296\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:09:33","slug":"germanys-tkms-spains-navantia-to-explore-strategic-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/5296\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s TKMS, Spain&#8217;s Navantia to explore strategic cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">FRANKFURT, April 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Warship makers TKMS and Spain&#8217;s state-owned Navantia have signed \u200ca memorandum of understanding to explore \u200ccooperation on naval projects, including the potential production of \u200bTKMS submarine designs at Navantia&#8217;s shipyards in Spain, the companies said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The agreement covers potential projects in Europe, within NATO and \u200cworldwide, and comes \u2060as both companies cite growing demand for naval vessels and bottlenecks \u2060in shipyard capacity and technological resources across Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 Parties agreed to initiate management-level discussions in \u200bfull compliance \u200bwith competition and \u200bexport control regulations<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 \u200cThe aim of talks is to explore how closer cooperation can help realise projects &#8220;more efficiently, quickly, and cost-effectively&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 Navantia is wholly owned by SEPI, a Spanish state holding company \u200cattached to the Ministry \u200bof Finance, and employs nearly \u200b6,000 people \u200bin Spain<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 TKMS, which is majority-owned \u200cby German industrial firm \u200bThyssenkrupp, employs \u200bmore than 9,100 people at shipyards in Kiel, Wismar and Itajai, Brazil<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 &#8220;It is \u200bcrucial that \u200cEuropean industrial companies collaborate more closely,&#8221; said \u200bTKMS CEO Oliver Burkhard<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Christoph \u200bSteitzEditing by Linda Pasquini)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRANKFURT, April 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Warship makers TKMS and Spain&#8217;s state-owned Navantia have signed \u200ca memorandum of understanding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2262,3618,3619,3617,17,3616],"class_list":{"0":"post-5296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-cooperation","9":"tag-memorandum-of-understanding","10":"tag-naval-vessels","11":"tag-navantia","12":"tag-spain","13":"tag-tkms"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}