German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder won cheers from some 900 workers at a plant owned by Canadian rail maker Bombardier, declaring he'd struck a deal to save their jobs; Schröder, under fire for the continuing unemployment in ex-Communist districts, intervened after Bombardier threatened to close its Ammendorf and Brandenburg sites.
Three of their biggest buys were a couple of rail car makers and a tanker company.
In an era when other leading European economies have reduced the role of the government, France has periodically bailed out companies like Alstom, the rail car maker and the computer company Groupe Bull.
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According to the rail equipment maker, GE has reduced deliveries that have already been inspected and approved and there's a discrepancy of 414 cars, or $35 million, between the deliveries GE will accept through the end of September and those it's required to take.
And the city's plans to develop a brand new 20-acre "CleanTech Manufacturing Center" have been put on hold after the center's first tenant, Italian rail car maker AnsaldoBreda, pulled out of the project shortly before the deal was slated to close.
A tentative agreement was reached over the weekend between Bombardier, the aircraft and rail-car maker based in Montreal, and 3,800 striking production and office workers at its Toronto aerospace unit.
Souring On Sweeteners 08.06.03 A popular food ingredient gets blamed for rising obesity, and its makers rail against "junk science".
Among the many issues identified by European policy makers, rail network bottlenecks are becoming a cause of concern particularly in certain corridors as increasing traffic eventually leads to congestion and degraded performance of the railway system.
