Located on the Atlantic coast for 150 years, STX France SA is a company dedicated to maritime construction and services to fleets. Thanks to the expertise developed by its staff (2,500 persons) and its sub-contractor network, combined with up-to-date industrial facilities, the company is one of the world leaders for designing, fabricating, erecting and commissioning highly complex ships and offshore installations. STX France is structured around three Business Units (BU): Ships – Offshore Energies – Services. It relies also on its two subsidiaries: STX France Solutions for engineering services and STX France Lorient, shipyard offering specialized ships of less than 100 m long.more

Located in Cherbourg, north western France the shipyard has built more than 700 highly sophisticated naval, civil and research vessels in aluminium, steel and advanced composite materials. CMN is part of Privinvest Shipbuilding Group. Privinvest Shipbuilding is state of the art construction and design facilities in the Mediterranean, the Arabian Gulf, Germany, France and the United Kingdom have designed and produced some of the world’s most successful and recognized vessels in the Naval, Commercial Vessels and the Luxury Super Yacht markets. The group is composed of 6 modern shipyards (employing 2,500 people), has 350 years of cumulated experience and has delivered more than 1,600 vessels worldwide. CMN has a long and fruitful experience in the design and production of naval vessels and research vessels. CMN design Office is teaming up naval architects and designers with marine engineers, design office specialist teams and weapon systems department, to develop the platform that will integrate the structural design, propulsion systems, electrical systems, piping and HVAC systems, weapon, navigation, communication and audio/video systems, and communication with the coordination constraints to achieve an optimum balance between performance, operability, comfort and maintainability. The design Office has already successfully set Transfer of Technology methodologies to allow the construction of CMN designs in different shipyard partners.more