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Competitiveness Factors of a Shipyard in the Era of New Uses of Oceans
Brais Preto-Fernández1, Natalia Paleo-Mosquera1, Almudena Filgueira-Vizoso2, Ramon Yáñez-Brage3, Laura Castro-Santos41IES Lamas de Abade, Santiago de Compostela, Department of Education of the Xunta de Galicia, Department of Mathematics, Spain2University of Santiago de Compostela Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Department of Political Science and Sociology, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
3University of A Coruña, Polytechnic School of Engineering of Ferrol, Department of Chemistry, Coruña, Spain
4University of A Coruña, Polytechnic School of Engineering of Ferrol, Department of Naval and Industrial Engineering, Coruña, Spain
The aim of this paper is to examine the most relevant competitive factors of a shipyard. The method conducted interviews and questionnaires with multiple agents related to the company and analyzed several institutional, business, and academic documents. The case of study considered was the manufacturing center of Navantia, S.A. in the Ferrol estuary (A Coruña, North-West of Spain). The results indicate that the five most important competitive factors are the government and political support, the production organization, the product technology, manpower, and skills and knowledge. Thus, these five competitive factors are critical to analyze the competitiveness of a shipyard with the characteristics of the one studied for new uses of the ocean, such as offshore wind, wave energy, or aquaculture.
Keywords: Competitiveness factor, Shipyard, Shipbuilding, Oceans, Offshore renewable energiesCorresponding Author: Almudena Filgueira-Vizoso, Spain
Manuscript Language: English
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