Several thousand steelworkers demonstrated in front of the main Thyssenkrupp plant in the north of Duisburg. IG Metall brought them there from all Thyssenkrupp sites in North Rhine-Westphalia and from Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann in the south of Duisburg.
Confronted with the loss of thousands of jobs, 10,000 steel workers from Thyssenkrupp and HKM are holding a joint works meeting on April 30 in Duisburg.
On a cold, snowy morning in the bustling German port city of Kiel, Singapore launched its fourth Invincible-class submarine the Inimitable. Built by the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN), Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) and German manufacturer thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (tkMS), it is part of a four-submarine fleet that replaces the Navy's Challenger- and Archer-class vessels. The first.