La Ciotat Shipyards, formerly known as SEMIDEP-Ciotat, are a local public company, whose shareholders are: The Department of Bouches-du-Rhône (35,7%) The Metropole Aix-Marseille-Provence (35,6%) The South Region (18,5 %) The City of La Ciotat (10,2%). Created as the result of the 1994 agreements, La Ciotat Shipyards have witnessed the success of a voluntarist and partnership based policy of the reindustrialisation of the site formerly geared towards the construction of large industrial units (oil and LNG tankers, etc.) through a repositioning in the sector of repair, servicing and maintenance of large yachts.more